Archived Pornography, Obscenity and The Case For Censorship - Irving Kristol (March 28, 1971) (nytimes.com)
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Archived Pornography, Obscenity and The Case For Censorship - Irving Kristol (March 28, 1971) (nytimes.com)
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The right-wing Telegraph described him upon his death as "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the [twentieth] century."
But so what? None of this matters except to identify how important he was. I've read a lot of him. He was a very bright, persuasive writer. A thinking man's journalist. A journalist that desperately wanted to not be thought of as a journalist. Not even that well educated or even well read - just blessed with natural gifts.
But why am I telling you all this? Your critique pretty much begins and ends with him being a Jew. You certainly have nothing to say about his essay here - one of his best. He was basically an essayist in substance really.