1. This @SonnyBunch review of Podhoretz's "Making It' is completely ridiculous:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/06/14/critics-have-been-having-the-same-debates-about-art-and-politics-forever-ours-are-just-dumber/?utm_term=.c903ff8f47a0 …
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3. If there is anything we can say about Norman Podhoretz, it's that he is a super-ideological critic who always judges works by politics.
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4. A few examples: When Catch-22 came out Podhoretz was a liberal & loved it. When he became right-winger, he suddenly discovered it was bad
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Wasn't that one of the intelectually bankrupt practices we decried in the Soviet Union?
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It's misinformed/misremembered nostalgia. "People used to have intellectual debates! The world is worse!" No, that's cognitive bias, Bunch.
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In fairness, Podheretz argued that criticism should consider both aesthetic & political content, not substitute politics for aesthetics
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