Dwight and left: the centenary of Dwight Macdonald's birth should inspire more Americans to read their most crotchety, snobby, and brilliant critic.(LETTERS)
American Prospect, The, March, 2006 by Rodden, John; Rossi, Jack
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> IN 1958, WRITING IN THE JESUIT weekly America, the historian John Lukacs speculated whether Dwight Macdonald might become "The American Orwell." Noting that Macdonald's American "reputation is rising," Lukacs wrote that he was already known among British intellectuals "as one of the most interesting American critics of these times." In particular Lukacs lauded Macdonald's "lonely and courageous positions" in the mid-1940s--on Yalta, the Allied insistence on unconditional surrender, the mistreatment of Japanese-Americans--and argued that ...
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