Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, March 01, 2007


We see that the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has died. From our experience consuming the news there was a good Schlesinger and a bad Schlesinger. The good Schlesinger stood forthrightly for his country, and for common sense, and against PC. The bad Schlesinger was the worst kind of knee-jerk liberal who'd tell a fib to advance the cause. You could never be sure whether you'd get good Schlesinger or bad Schlesinger. Well, we will presume that over time the good Schlesinger prevailed over the bad. His death reminds us though that Fixers notwithstanding the notion of the brain trust is slowly dying off, put paid by Lyndon Johnson's, and the advantage of not having effete snobs rule the country may be outweighed by the disadvantage of not having some intellectual firepower behind us.

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