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Apr. 28th, 2007 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldOver at The New Republic, Johann Hari shreds British neoconservative historian Andrew Roberts and his new history A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900:
Yes, Hari's examples do seem to support that thesis.
Elsewhere, Naomi Klein takes a look at the jury-selection process in the trial of Conrad Black ("Class War in Black's Courtroom") and finds out something interesting. It turns out that Conrad Black, someone who favoured the Americanization of the tax system and the welfare state and public policy partly through appeals to the Anglosphere, is being tried by jurors drawn from a population that seems to dislike the kind of Americanization he has come to personify.
Bush, Cheney, and--in a recent, glowing cover story--National Review, have, in fact, embraced a man with links to white supremacism, whose book is not a history but an ahistorical catalogue of apologies and justifications for mass murder that even blames the victims of concentration camps for their own deaths. The decision to laud Roberts provides a bleak insight into the thinking of the Bush White House as his presidential clock nears midnight.
Yes, Hari's examples do seem to support that thesis.
Elsewhere, Naomi Klein takes a look at the jury-selection process in the trial of Conrad Black ("Class War in Black's Courtroom") and finds out something interesting. It turns out that Conrad Black, someone who favoured the Americanization of the tax system and the welfare state and public policy partly through appeals to the Anglosphere, is being tried by jurors drawn from a population that seems to dislike the kind of Americanization he has come to personify.
Regardless of what else happens in the Black saga, the jury-selection process has already provided an extraordinary window onto the way regular Americans, randomly selected, view their elites -- not as heroes but as thieves. As far as Black is concerned, this is all terribly unfair--he is being "thrown to the mobs" because of rage at the system and, unlike American billionaires, he doesn't "dress in corduroy trousers" or donate his fortune to AIDS charities. Black's lawyers even argued (unsuccessfully) that their client could not get a fair trial because the average Chicagoan "does not reside in more than one residence, employ servants or a chauffeur, enjoy lavish furniture, or host expensive parties."
