All you need to know

Here’s an article on literary critic Dwight Macdonald (whose essays I have sampled and found to make for painful reading, largely because of his convoluted prose style). The one thing in the article I found worth remembering (aside from the dreary truth that Macdonald was an elitist’s elitist) is Leon Trotsky’s comment about the writer, which has so many useful and contemporary applications: “[E]veryone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.”