A sympathetic interview with Jules Feiffer about his newest play which just opened at the Lincoln Center. His opus relates the trouble a family of dedicated communists had in Brooklyn during the McCarthy era. Some nice slaps at George W. Bush in the interview.
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Playing With History
A sympathetic interview with Jules Feiffer about his newest play which just opened at the Lincoln Center. His opus relates the trouble a family of dedicated communists had in Brooklyn during the McCarthy era. Some nice slaps at George W. Bush in the interview.
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The opening pages of today's Magazine were infuriating. The anti-Republican letters, this article and a suck-up photo of Castro and his Venezuelan sycophant/imitator.
Not that the left exists anymore. This is an essentially conservative country that had a left-wing fling in the 30's, during the New Deal, because everyone was broke.
You're acting as if the 60's never happened.
The 60's were more of a revolution in terms of clothing, music and language. You were allowed to curse. You just weren't allowed to redistribute wealth.
That strikes me as simplistic. The civil rights movement was about more than jeans, cursing and Joni Mitchell. It brought real social gains.
Yes, it made enormous gains, and then it ended up being a fashion statement. Look at the clothes kids wear today -- the baggy pants, the baseball caps worn backward, the hip-hop look. This has been going on since the 60's, when white kids picked up black language -- ''I groove on that! Too much! Tell it like it is!'' -- while reserving their inalienable right to white flight.
There has been much defection from the old left since Sept. 11 among writers like Paul Berman and Christopher Hitchens.
I found it quite a shock.
You may be the last unreconstituted leftist.
No. Fortunately, there are several million last leftists.