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But humanitarian conservatism is more than just a philosophy of noblesse oblige applied to a bourgeois capitalist setting. It seeks to show that while the ideal worlds of Plato, Marx and the socialists might make great places to live (and maybe not), this is an imperfect world.
That is the question raised by the extraordinary confession of veteran reporter A. Kent MacDougall. Writing in the Monthly Review, an obscure socialist magazine (circ. 7,000), MacDougall declares that during his 24-year career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, he "helped...
Gustave Courbet has been seen for most of this century as the patriarch of the avant-garde ideal, a man both embodying his time and working in defiance of bourgeois taste: in short, a hero. He was born in 1819 the son of a farmer, lived as a socialist, and...
You may laugh, but beer is one of the running motifs of Prascak's production, one of the few things that unites the three plays. Flute's Queen of the Night (Lee Ann Einert) rules over the proceedings with a can of Rolling Rock in her outstretched hand. Soprano's...
The principal settings are those favorite corners of Greeneland, grimy London and a sunnier Third World capital, both pregnant with menace. The story lurches, sometimes comically, toward a classic Greene ending, which combines plausible irony with amazing grace. And the Captain is a typical Greene figure: a man of several...