That was itself gracefully written and really devastating. Nice job!
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Do I have to? I mean, thank you for writing this. But geez man, just reading excerpts of that essay today was enough for me. I know what that empire-loving flavor is like. Unless he has some special strange taste notes in the flavor?
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I think you'll enjoy the piece, honestly, because I make some connections that might not be obvious.
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“But there is an easy response to such anti-imperialist arguments: the native’s don’t know what’s good for them.” Is that first apostrophe correct? I keep going in circles over whether you can argue that it is a possessive, but I don’t think “what’s good for you” usually is.
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To be scornful toward Mailer because of his politics, wouldn’t you have to take his politics seriously first?
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What do you think about the qualified defense of Churchill at https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/churchill-in-the-news/bengali-famine/ … (roughly, "yes, he said some insensitive things but eventually he did send aid; the Japanese had the RAF too stretched for a famine airlift" etc.)
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That ranks Epstein's essays too high, I think. Near Woolf? Not even in the same neighborhood. Nor near Pritchett. Not even as good as Buckley's personal essays. Closer to some of the grand names of the Saturday review. A rightwing Granville Hicks.
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And ...no shoutout to Mike Davis's Victorian Holocausts, which makes the role of the British in the great famines of the 19th century crystal clear?
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