Anti-Climacus

In the context of this, and running concomitant with my understanding that I've slacked off far too much on my reading responsibilities, I've been taking a keen look at the last generation of Liberal thinkers before the New Left broke out--New York intellectuals like Mary McCarthy (who was kind of a hottie in her day, I must admit), Irving Howe, Philip Rahv; Democratic party foreign policy mavens like George Kennan (I went to look for books by Dean Acheson, but none of them were in, even the ones the computer said were in. I smell a conspiracy); and writers in the George Orwell mode. Highlights from day one of the re-education program reproduced above.