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...Rebecca Novak Columbus...
Thompson repeatedly argued that all lawyers should be castrated and most journalists locked up. Asked if there were any Washington reporters he read regularly. Thompson named, the Washington Post trio of David S. Broder, Jules Witcover, and Jack Germond, and called the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak the worst...
...Evans and Novak are completely off the wall. They're hopeless--they're pathological liars," Thompson said...
Roman Catholic Philosopher-Writer Michael Novak is less cool in his assessments. "Our highest moral principle is flexibility," he writes; our view, that "life is solitary and brief, and that its aim is self-fulfillment. In such a vision of the self, marriage is merely an alliance ... They say of marriage that it is deadening, when what they mean is that it drives us beyond adolescent fantasies and romantic dreams ... Choosing to have a family used to be uninteresting. It is, today, an act of intelligence and courage...
...cathartic melodrama and historical events needs attention, however, if only because professional historians themselves have so much trouble respecting it. Slavery, so obvious in its lurid immorality, is apt to become especially distorted in the hands of American historians. "What is it about the black experience," asks Author Michael Novak, "that produces in so many good minds, black and white, a positive lust for corruptions of elementary sense?" The answers are probably 1) guilt and 2) ideology...