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Stealth Totalitarianism may be the end to which we are proceeding, but, for the present, the de facto oligarchy of wealth and the popularly elected government that represents them and whose election they financed finds it convenient to allow a broad range of discussions, PROVIDED they remain confined to obscure blogs, etc. Were such discussions as we regularly see on ET to start occurring in the pages or even the on line blogs associated with the NY Times either a change in ownership or of editorial policy might be in order.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Feb 1st, 2010 at 01:28:16 PM EST
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Wolin's Democracy Incorporated has been ignored by The New York Review of Books (with which he had published a book, and to which he had doubtless contributed), not to mention the NY Times. The New York Review is considerably to the left of the Times, so the fact that even it doesn't want to touch Wolin's recent ideas says how bad things have gotten in the US.

The only mainstream "general circulation" publication I've found to review the book is The Times Higher Education Supplement.

It of course makes members of the American elite uncomfortable to entertain the idea that the US is not a democracy, but a new, postmodern political form. But it makes European elites uncomfortable, too, largely, I think, because of NATO and all the American military bases that exist across Europe.

A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns

by Alexander on Mon Feb 1st, 2010 at 02:52:05 PM EST
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