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« One Cheer for Giuliani, and an Epitaph | Main | Who needs Mitt? » May 11, 2007Liberal LiteratureEzra Klein says that John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is the best fiction for understanding the economics of the Left. Hmm, I don't know if he speaks for his side of the spectrum, but if so, what does it say about liberalism that at the time of its writing, Steinbeck was, if not an outright Communist, pretty pinko? And the novel itself? Keith Windshuttle: there is now an accumulation of sufficient historical, demographic, and climatic data about the 1930s to show that almost everything about the elaborate picture created in the novel is either outright false or exaggerated beyond belief. Posted by Zach Wendling at May 11, 2007 08:25 AM CommentsWell, maybe like Casy says, a fellow ain't got a soul of his own, but only a piece of a big one? Then it don't matter. Then I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere, wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. . . I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build --why, I'll be there. Posted by: Doug at May 11, 2007 09:18 AM | permalink Posted by: Foltz at May 11, 2007 12:11 PM | permalink Post a comment |
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