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This week on GLoP, CNN publishes a fake story and gets hoodwinked, and Catcher In The Rye is one of the seminal novels of the 20th century. Does it still have relevance for 21st century kids? The men of GLoP weigh in.
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You know whom the youth should like, who never goes out of style?
Socrates. Now there’s a cool rebel.
That would have been brilliant.
When I was about 10, one of my primary-school teachers told me to read Catcher in the Rye when I was 15 and my world was falling apart. I read it when I was 15, but my world wasn’t falling apart so I didn’t like it. I have blamed it ever since for the extraordinary deference shown to adolescence. That said, I loved Franny and Zooey when I read it a couple of years ago, do maybe I should revisit Catcher.
Looking Backward has obviously been remembered in the UK, where it now forms the basis of Labour Party policy.
Working from Rob’s Moby Dick critique, I want to share an anecdote because I think it deserves to be widely known as an exemplification of the shallow narrow-minded nature of today’s intelligentsia, the generation below mine:
Working at a high-school college-prep event, I met a (highly intelligent) colleague I hadn’t seen for a few months. She was on her phone, enjoying “a friend’s savage takedown of [a new West End musical version of] The Wind in the Willows.” The reason for the criticism was because the original book was politically conservative, but Julian Fellowes, author of the new version, “has somehow made it more conservative!”
So there we are: a musical adaptation of a children’s classic is to be trashed for its ideological impurity.
Did Rob Long ever get back with audio files of an older New York sound. I have always thought the only thing I like about Charlie Rangel is his accent- it’s nostalgic.
I’ve found in the C-SPAN archives the program @jonahgoldberg mentioned seeing in which Christopher Hitchens, Joseph Bottum, and others discuss The Illiad.
The African-American woman Jonah mentions is identified as Debra Dickerson, author and journalist, who Google tells me is a graduate of Harvard Law School and who writes/has written for Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, The Nation, and The Pyongyang Times (okay, she didn’t really write for the PT, I made that bit up).
Here’s the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixfs_VQWq_8.