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Red Diaper Baby (w/ Ari Brostoff)

Know Your Enemy

CHAPTER

Dideon's Essay on Newton and the Panther

Horwitz tells the story of his time on the left from the privileged position of being able to depict himself however he wants in the future. He depicts himself as such a child, and perhaps it's just true that many people on the left were like this too. But what is notable about the way horwitz tells the stories are how childish they can be. The kind of almost politically vacuous ediple narrative where, like, it's really, like, just about hating your dad. I think it's allso interesting, because one thing that was very common in the sixties and onward in popular writing from conservatives and from the liberal centre of bout the new left,. And then, you

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