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Monday, May 05, 2003
posted by gbarto at 4:22 AM:
Here's Virginia Postrel on a "brave" writer, which calls to mind the late, great Michael Kelly's April column for the Atlantic Monthly on all the "brave" writers and actors protesting the war. Notes Virginia higher up:How brave is Bill McKibben's book Enough? So brave that its author, normally a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, spent a year working on it at the Center for the Study of Values and Public Life at Harvard. Such are the punishments suffered by those who write bravely.Notes Kelly of Paul Krugman:
Hard and dangerous and damned courageous. "It's a very uncomfortable thing to question the honesty and motives of your leaders," the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently said. "I'm saying that the men who are controlling our destiny are lying. Not many journalists or many people want to confront them." But Krugman is willing, twice weekly, and he has paid a price: fame and influence as a columnist for the most important newspaper in the world.Virginia is commenting on the "brave" meme. How long will it take us to get the "brave? as if!" meme going?
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