He wouldn’t be the first one to try this strategy. Good old Clarence Thomas used it spectacularly.
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Yup. I read a great book recently called The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin, a political science teacher. Conservatives, at least those with any knowledge of history, basically blame the French Revolution for every pleb that ever mouths off. As much as we like to make…
This is awesome. It must have been so fun to talk to Gordon! I think it’s amazing that she didn’t know that Mary Shelley was Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter but then got so interested in it that she wrote a book. I have always found both Wollstonecraft and Shelley to be interesting figures, and for Shelley to have…
More of this kind of thing on Jezebel, please! Djuna was awesome and it was just thrilling to see this article. I hope this exposure prompts some folks to explore her work. Well done!