Simple Facts and Plain Truths

David A. Bell

  • Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld
    Harvard, 337 pp, £22.95, ISBN 0 674 05781 3

Readers of the LRB probably don’t have a lot of common sense: this, after all, is a journal of the ‘chattering classes’. Some of its contributors are Marxists, feminists and postmodern philosophers. Could anything be more at odds with the no-nonsense common sense of the ordinary man or woman?

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