Untitled Document In the London Times, under the headline “The United States of America has gone mad,” the British novelist John le Carré began his modest polemic with “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember.” Accepting the Wilfred Owen Prize for anti-war poetry, the […]
Hal Crowther
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That’s all she wrote
Untitled Document At the end of the film Venus, which stars Peter O’Toole as a decrepit actor holding off his final curtain, Vanessa Redgrave delivers a bleak line: “When you die, everyone wants to be your friend.” Though I knew Molly Ivins forever — since the Kennedy administration — I would never claim that I […]
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That’s all she wrote
Untitled Document At the end of the film Venus, which stars Peter O’Toole as a decrepit actor holding off his final curtain, Vanessa Redgrave delivers a bleak line: “When you die, everyone wants to be your friend.” Though I knew Molly Ivins forever — since the Kennedy administration — I would never claim that I […]
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The jig is up
November 2006 was a month that historians will study in minute detail, day by day and headline by headline, when they attempt to reconstruct the iron chain of misery the United States has been forging for itself since September 2001 — though some will maintain that November 2000, with its still-disputed presidential election, was the […]
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Bring it on
The myth of Robin Hood — the outlaw who steals from the rich and gives to the poor (after deducting a modest commission) — is an ancient myth of universal appeal, one that must predate by many centuries the quasi-historical English bandit of the 12th century whose exploits were as familiar to my childhood as […]
