Did P.G. Wodehouse really have "ultra right-wing" instincts? Paul Berman needs to re-read Orwell's essay on Wodehouse:http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118690/alexander-cockburns-colossal-wreck-reviewed-paul-berman …
@JamesWolcott In general, the piece is evidence of Berman's startling inability to parse ironic prose.
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@HeerJeet It's also Berman using Cockburn's death to settle all of his old political/personal scores with a nasty, pious vengeance. -
@JamesWolcott Piety especially squirmy in "more in sorrow than in anger" & "we're all struggling writers" ending. - Show replies
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