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Christopher Lasch

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    Mar 21, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Caught in a paranoid conspiracy grip

    Along the stretch of U.S. highway where I live, there is a small sign announcing that the road has been "adopted" by the John Birch Society. This fringe group of yesteryear -- whose Dallas members distributed commie-baiting "Wanted for Treason" leaflets of President Kennedy prior to his visit and assassination there -- now sponsors litter removal like any other proper civic-minded organization. The Red-under-every-bed zealotry that Richard Hofstadter dissected in "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and Bob Dylan satirized in "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" has been rehabilitated. Or maybe it's just been coyly rebranded, given a veneer of halfway respectable populism by the grass-rootsy Tea Party label, as an outlet for "angry minds" who get to cherry-pick among speculations that the president of the United States is a socialist traitor, a foreign agent/illegal immigrant, a secret Muslim, a tool of Jewish bankers, a black Hitler or all of the above.
    Along the stretch of U.S. highway where I live, there is a small sign announcing that the road has been "adopted" by the John Birch Society. This fringe group of yesteryear -- whose Dallas members distributed commie-baiting "Wanted for Treason" leaflets...

    Tags: Richard Hofstadter, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Television, Justice System, Corruption

    2. Aug 19, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Blogs: All the noise that fits

    The late Christopher Lasch once wrote that public affairs generally and journalism in particular suffered not from too little information but from entirely too much. What was needed, he argued, was robust debate. Lasch, a historian by training but a...

    Tags: Mass Media, Democracy, The New York Times, Central Intelligence Agency, News Media

    3. Feb 3, 2005 |Story| Virginia Gazette

  3. Soundings: Virginia Opera succeeds with 'Tristan and Isolde'

    Social critic and writer Christopher Lasch once said, "nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." This certainly applies to the Virginia Opera's Virginia premiere of Wagner's monumental "Tristan and Isolde." In fulfilling its continuing mission to...

    Tags: Yogi Berra, Death, Theater, Opera (genre), Music Theater

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