Dressing down the primitives

Sunday’s Los Angeles Times carried an interesting profile of Mark Helprin by freelance writer John Anderson: “Dressing down the primitives.” Here’s the opening of the piece:

Shortly after November’s routing of the Democrats, best-selling novelist Jane Smiley launched a bare-knuckled counterpunch on Slate

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