Richard Brookhiser
@RBrookhiser
Biographer, historian, journalist, senior editor National Review (my columns: City Desk, Country Life)
Thought-provoking article! I'm reminded that when Bill Buckley founded NR in 1955, he was pushed in part by Willi Schlamm, who was desperate for a new conservative journal of opinion in a media landscape dominated by liberal sources conservatives deeply distrusted.
You've had me singing it all day. Loved that show, Maverick and Wanted: Dead or Alive
That's why I posted it yesterday. First thing I thought of when discussing westerns teaching lessons. youtu.be/6y2LHlZRVrQ?si…
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Indeed. As you know, Bill issued a decree at NR in 1958 or 59 that no writer could write for the Mercury. NR benefitted from the Freeman's downfall under Hazlitt, as John Chamberlain, Suzanne La Follette and Frank Meyer moved to NR from the Freeman with Schlamm.
Anti semitism killed the first, internal disagreements the second.
Of course, Bill himself was perfectly willing to publish in all sorts of liberal journalistic institutions--the New York Times, the New Yorker, Esquire, NYT Review of Books, and yes, Sailing. He was also aware of the downfall of other Right pubs like American Mercury, Freeman.
I suppose I began this by noting Davis’s fondness for Castro. More American would be her praise of Jim Jones who murdered 909 followers, most of them black.
My main focus is on American history because I am an Afro-American, even though folks like you always try to deflect to the atrocities that other countries committed as you don’t want to deal with the atrocities that ancestors committed, Talk to me about Jim Crow, not Castro!
My main focus is on American history because I am an Afro-American, even though folks like you always try to deflect to the atrocities that other countries committed as you don’t want to deal with the atrocities that ancestors committed, Talk to me about Jim Crow, not Castro!
But as far as his fans -- such as Comrade Angela Davis, for example -- were concerned, he was Cuban -- Castro's Enforcer, in fact.
Bad prose, great character. (Twain was blinded by envy.)
Sure, play the Natty Bumppo Card. I expected no less from RB!
NB Guevara was Argentinian.
.@CreacyHarold “The black is indolent, spending his wage on frivolity or drink, with no affinity with bathing. When the revolution triumphs we are going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing.” - CHE GUEVARA stingray-bat-pb8x.squarespace.com
Don't believe me? Read that noted rightwing rag Jacobin on how Walterio Carbonell was imprisoned in work camps and tortured for arguing against Cuban racism: jacobin.com/2018/04/cuba-1…
One of the most odious parts of the Cuban revolution is how Fidel Castro literally tortured and imprisoned Afro-Cubans for their insistence on being Afro-Cubans, but he gets a publicity shot with Malcolm X and people are like "Racism in Cuba???? I don't think so!"
Needless to say that I disagree. In my view, Castro was no more oppressive than Jim Crow America was its Afro-American citizens. Have you read "I, Too" by Langston Hughes?
Like yours, my reply was an analogy, but unlike me, you have no idea what you wrote. Neither Alabama or Mississippi is in the Caribbean Sea —Sport.
Of course I never said anything of the kind. It was said to be worse than Castro's totalitarian communist oppression -- to which I replied: "So where, during Jim Crow, were the American blacks drowning as they desperately tried to escape Alabama & Mississippi on leaky 'rafts'?"
Wait, you don’t think Jim Crow was oppressive?
.@CreacyHarold “The black is indolent, spending his wage on frivolity or drink, with no affinity with bathing. When the revolution triumphs we are going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing.” - CHE GUEVARA stingray-bat-pb8x.squarespace.com