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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

      In her book 'Liberal Parents, Radical Children" (1975) Decter used a method she called "fictionalized sociology" -- creating ideal types of bad people. In other words, "making up a guy to get mad at."pic.twitter.com/RQ2Exx9olZ

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

      Me (stupid guy): Wait, you're just making up didactic & manipulative stories to describe people you hate. But these stories have neither the empathy of fiction nor the empirical grounding of journalism and scholarship. You (smart guy): Yes, I call it fictionalized sociology

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

      This whole "fictionalized sociology" is a big thing on the right. You see it in David Brooks' work ("Bobos in Paradise") and Charles Murray's ("Coming Apart"). But Decter was a pioneer. She helped create "making up a guy to get mad at."

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    5. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong May 11
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Is this the point where I say that I always confuse Midge Decter with Gertrude Himmelfarb?

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11
      Replying to @delong

      That's very unfair to Himmelfarb.

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    7. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong May 11
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Yes. I remember I once called her a "doughty polemicist", and David Landes took offense because he thought I had called her a "dowdy polemicist". A very sharp and learned mind—although one running off-the-rails at many turnings...

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11
      Replying to @delong

      Her books on Lord Acton and Darwin are good as are some of the essays. I thought Moyn's recent lecture on her was good. It's strange that she went from writing a good book on Darwin to becoming an apologist for intelligent design.

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    9. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong May 11
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Is there a transcript of Moyn's lectures anywhere? I think what happened was that she and her husband moved from being penetrating, quirky cultural critics of modernity to toad-eating lickspittles when they scented power; & their son has now performed the reverse journey...

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11
      Replying to @delong

      You can listen to lectures here, but I think the published form will be later this year. @samuelmoyn?https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/the-carlyle-lectures-2022-the-cold-war-and-the-canon-of-liberalism …

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        1. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong May 11
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          There is something to be done apropos of history rhyming, with the Cold War Liberals' grappling with McCarthyite & Stalinist lies and misrepresentations prefiguring today...

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        1. Samuel Moyn  🔭‏Verified account @samuelmoyn May 12
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          I think more like next summer

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