The late Claud Cockburn, one of the most generous and charming men I have ever encountered, exposed me to the anti-Orwellian view of the Spanish War and other matters when I was twenty years old, and very patiently taught me more than he probably suspected about how to argue dialectically.

What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as the brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

["Minority Report," Nation, 10/21/91]
www.thefreelibrary.com/Minority+rep...

Antonia Hitchens reports from the D.C. Central Detention Facility, which has held some of the January 6th rioters for the past several years. It became a site of celebration and frustration after President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 of them.

No kidding, this is a line of dialogue from a 1970 movie funded by the Russian government.

It always makes me suspicious when you have these “apolitical” businessmen saying:

“I just wanna put the country back on its feet and restore incentives…If the country could be run like USA Inc…with a real can-do guy....”

There’s a whiff of fascism to that, I think.