This past Sunday, Nicholas Kristof had a review in the New York Times of a new book on Mao Tse-Tung. Kristof gets on my nerves less than the other second-hand sophists at the Gray Lady, but his musings this weekend really went too far. My response is up at the New Criterion's website (scroll to the bottom).
As a side note, not many people in the mid-west, or among the younger generation, read The New Criterion. This is a shame. I don't know of a more erudite and incisive journal that covers as wide a variety of cultural topics as it does -- theatre, art, music, books, politics, and so forth. It's definitely worth checking out.
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