Sunday, October 7, 2007

A sharp pen that too often drips with acid

Glenn C. Altschuler in the Boston Globe reviews In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage by Joseph Epstein.
In 1997, after 22 years as editor of The American Scholar, the journal of Phi Beta Kappa, Joseph Epstein was fired. He was sacked, he believes, by professorial partisans of feminism, black history, and gay and lesbian studies, subjects conspicuous by their absence in his magazine.

What was he told, I wonder. "We've been thinking for the last 21 years that this just isn't working out."

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