An interesting Leftist website

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An interesting Leftist website

1Doug1943
Ene 28, 2022, 12:10 pm

I'm trying to broaden my political horizons by signing up to and reading sites whose political orientation I do not agree with.

Sometimes I come across ones which are of especially high quality, or which take in aspects of Leftist thinking that I'm not very familiar with.

This is such a site. I've linked to someone on the Left who is always worth reading: https://thisishell.com/interviews/931-andrew-cockburn

2proximity1
Editado: Feb 5, 2022, 9:38 am

True. Many on the "Left" used to make a lot of sense. But we're now able to see that many of these very same were often more lucky than really talented in critical reasoning: the issues and problems favoured their critical bent of mind. This is a spectacular example of Controversy's metaphorical "tide going out" revealing who's bathing with a suit on and who's just "buck neckid".

Some I still read and admire; though I can disagree with them in certain ways and at certain times, their views are consistently better reasoned than the great majority of their so-called "peers".


Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald
John McWhorter (on "Twitter") (I don't recommend either "Twitter" or The New York Times but both have become McWhorter's mainstay public venues of opinion; perhaps for the better for those who typically frequent such publications: they, above all others, really need McWhorter's wisdom.)

Heather MacDonald

Jonathan Turley

Sharyl Attkisson

John Solomon

John Ralston Saul author of Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West


Others whose wisdom is now only available to us in the books they left behind:

C. Wright Mills
Roger Scruton
Karl Popper
Konrad Lorenz
Neil Postman
Richard Feynman
John W. Aldridge
René Girard
Guy Debord
Bertrand Russell
Victor Klemperer
Israël Shahak
Russell Baker (New York Times columnist)
Jean-Jacques Salomon