Midge Decter was a major figure whose historical importance has been obscured for many reasons (including, ironically, a sexism she herself supported). One big achievement was she invented the whole rhetorical strategy of "making up a guy to get mad at."
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Replying to @HeerJeet
"Fictionalized sociology" catering to conservative outrage is a pretty good description of works by Tom Wolfe like Radical Chic & Bonfire of the Vanities...which not coincidentally National Review conservatives loved
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Replying to @BMSantin
Yeah, he was the real master of the form.
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