#MeToo Redux

Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Not to equate Harvey Weinstein with Akhmatova. But the worst excesses of #MeTooism are tantamount to the Stalinist purges--only worse, since no one speaks up when an editor of The New York Review of Books is recused for allowing a Canadian journalist to defend himself against the accusations against him. Only a Screaming Pope can get away with saying these things since "they" have nothing to lose. Here is a quote from Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station. "Salomon Maimon, in the century before, had tried to reconcile rabbinical philosophy with Kant. Karl Marx, also a teacher in the Jewish tradition, but not quite free of the Judaic system and with all the thought of Western thought at his disposal, was to play an unprecedented role as a leader in the modern world." Remember Philip Roth's "Defender of the Faith?" Here is a lovely non-sequitur from Meyer Schapiro, "Hipsterism is Hasidism without God."

read "Making the Graphic Novel Graphic" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn

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