Monday, July 23, 2007
Self interviews
Norm at Norm's Blog interviewed himself, I learned from the ever-wonderful ligneus' post on the interview. Norm is a terrific writer, often full of exciting and unexpected perceptions. But he can be didactic, self-satisfied, arch and dismissive of points of view with which he disagrees (on those occasions when he allows them to sully his paragraphs). Sometimes I find it hard to read him without fury and wanting to get away. Which certainly won't diminish or bother his world at all, though it does definitely jostle mine. Anyway, he's a Jane Austen fan.

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Blogger Tat — at 2:54 PM, July 23, 2007:
...and a principled leftie. I vaguely remember there was a memorandum (or was it Ultimatum?) that he wrote post 9/11, or the Iraq War, that positively infuriated me no end - and I semi-consciously erased from my memory. (that's why I can't recall now what was that, specifically)
 

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 9:00 PM, July 24, 2007:
I guess he is didactic, but he was a professor, it's what they get paid to be. I like the way he can thread his way through a complex piece of writing and figure out why he thinks it's wrong. I imagine he was a pretty good prof to have. And though I admire him for many things, I still have a problem with him being a Marxist. He once had a short list of books that had influenced him, Marx of course, and Rosa Luxemborg, I forget what else, so I e-mailed him, 'What no Road to Serfdom?' I got a one word answer, 'Nope'. I don't know if he hadn't read it or had and didn't agree with it, but either way there is something missing in someone in his position in not acknowledging that Hayek is one of the great theorists of the last century and unlike Marx his work has been vindicated by events.
 

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