Read all about Columbia's 1968 "counter-commencement," Yale Univ. protests/Trotskyist organizers, and Israel's incursion into Rafah
https://t.co/lG19uYYdyS
@JoyceCarolOates Kind of depends what Pinker is talking about here. Is he talking about poorly written scientific articles? Is he talking about post-structuralist gibberish? Or is his criticism actually referring to the valuable contributions you mentioned?
@RobertFay1 Hard to imagine Cheever ever becoming completely irrelevant. His illustration of that odd veneer of 50s suburbia and what lay beneath is iconic
@rosemeyer1939@IrishLeftist Their *influence* has been god-like. Lennon has been sainted but that's at partly attributable to the obvious. You don't have to hold them in esteem or like them at all