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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Dec 2020

    Since a Joseph Epstein essay is getting attention, people might want to read my survey of his work:https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/joseph-epstein-nostalgia-for-the-empire-and-the-closet/ …

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      1. Wool-Encased Tea Addict‏ @Passeriform 12 Dec 2020
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        That was itself gracefully written and really devastating. Nice job!

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      2. Caitlin Howley‏ @CaitlinHowley 12 Dec 2020
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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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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Dec 2020
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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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      1. Nancy Cadet‏ @cadetinpanama 12 Dec 2020
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        Thanks!

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      1. i got nothing‏ @FxTxLxST 12 Dec 2020
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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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      1. George F. Kennan‏ @richard_tull 12 Dec 2020
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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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      1. David Tenner‏ @tenner_david 13 Dec 2020
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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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      2. limitedinc‏ @limitedinc3 13 Dec 2020
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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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      3. limitedinc‏ @limitedinc3 13 Dec 2020
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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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