Dorothy Thompson wrote a brilliant piece, "Who Goes Nazi?" for the August, 1941, issue of Harpers. It’s a cookbook for being able to go to a party and determine which guests will acquiesce with the Nazis and which guests will fight them.
This is one of the very finest opinion pieces written in the twentieth century. My only other candidates are Ayn Rand’s tribute to Marilyn Monroe
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/index.php?news=3247
[also linked to at the companion Quiddity blog in numbered post #93] and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s letter [with Iwan I. Ostromislensky and Count Ilya L. Tolstoy, also signatories] about Soviet Russia, published by the New York Times on January 15, 1931.
Let’s crash the party Dorothy Thompson describes, ourselves, and take a good look at the guests by reading the article. In spite of the fact that Thompson’s piece in Harpers is over 70 years old, it is available on line, free, at:
http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/0020122
This is one of the very finest opinion pieces written in the twentieth century. My only other candidates are Ayn Rand’s tribute to Marilyn Monroe
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/index.php?news=3247
[also linked to at the companion Quiddity blog in numbered post #93] and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s letter [with Iwan I. Ostromislensky and Count Ilya L. Tolstoy, also signatories] about Soviet Russia, published by the New York Times on January 15, 1931.
Let’s crash the party Dorothy Thompson describes, ourselves, and take a good look at the guests by reading the article. In spite of the fact that Thompson’s piece in Harpers is over 70 years old, it is available on line, free, at:
http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/0020122
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