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 kevinjjones rated 11 months ago- From the page: "Christopher Lasch's untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in his intellectual work followed John Winthrop's counsel, "We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfl...
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- kevinjjones rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Christopher Lasch's untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in his intellectual work followed John Winthrop's counsel, "We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others' necessities." Impossible to pigeonhole politically, Lasch seemed to be simultaneously to the left and to the right of most people. Possessed of a deft pen and a blessed impatience, he exposed cant and false posing among intellectuals, and railed against the false constraints of contemporary political discourse. But his polemicism was always directed to a clear end"
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