It is hard to read the heartbreaking stories in this newsletter, both in CH’s pieces and in the comments. It is also hard to then proceed to making detached observations about these pieces and comments. Doing so is still another way of feeling broken.
However—
It is good to read another interview with a journalist, Peter Osborne, of great …
It is hard to read the heartbreaking stories in this newsletter, both in CH’s pieces and in the comments. It is also hard to then proceed to making detached observations about these pieces and comments. Doing so is still another way of feeling broken.
However—
It is good to read another interview with a journalist, Peter Osborne, of great talent and accomplishment, who has contributed so much—and whose reward follows the principle that no good deed goes unpunished. As is more and more the course of authentic journalism in our time. It is heroic.
Though the history related in the interview was a bit hard to follow, going from one topic to another as the discussion did, it is good, for those of us who are still waking up to the fact that we do not live outside history, to begin to learn something about contemporary and near-contemporary history. And it was good to hear about it from a British perspective.
Peter Osborne is a rare bird in contemporary life: a political observer who calls himself a Burkean conservative. It’s been a long time since conservatives spoke that way. But then, actual conservatives and liberals—or progressives, or the left—no longer exist, at least in America. Now the “conservatives” (the Republicans) are fascists, and the “liberals” (the Democrats) are neoliberal creeping corporate fascists.
The British and American empires having gifted us with a linguistically imperial world, one in which it seems that nearly everyone speaks English, this interview leads me to wonder if CH might do interviews with people from other countries such as Germany, France, Brazil, India, Australia and so forth. Everyone in the world has opinions about America, I think.
It is hard to read the heartbreaking stories in this newsletter, both in CH’s pieces and in the comments. It is also hard to then proceed to making detached observations about these pieces and comments. Doing so is still another way of feeling broken.
However—
It is good to read another interview with a journalist, Peter Osborne, of great talent and accomplishment, who has contributed so much—and whose reward follows the principle that no good deed goes unpunished. As is more and more the course of authentic journalism in our time. It is heroic.
Though the history related in the interview was a bit hard to follow, going from one topic to another as the discussion did, it is good, for those of us who are still waking up to the fact that we do not live outside history, to begin to learn something about contemporary and near-contemporary history. And it was good to hear about it from a British perspective.
Peter Osborne is a rare bird in contemporary life: a political observer who calls himself a Burkean conservative. It’s been a long time since conservatives spoke that way. But then, actual conservatives and liberals—or progressives, or the left—no longer exist, at least in America. Now the “conservatives” (the Republicans) are fascists, and the “liberals” (the Democrats) are neoliberal creeping corporate fascists.
The British and American empires having gifted us with a linguistically imperial world, one in which it seems that nearly everyone speaks English, this interview leads me to wonder if CH might do interviews with people from other countries such as Germany, France, Brazil, India, Australia and so forth. Everyone in the world has opinions about America, I think.