Nutty Professors
Hal Foster: ‘Lingua Franca’, 8 May 2003
Quick Studies: The Best of ‘Lingua Franca’
edited by Alexander Star.
Farrar, Straus, 514 pp., $18, September 2002,0 374 52863 2 Show More
edited by Alexander Star.
Farrar, Straus, 514 pp., $18, September 2002,
“... The cultural strategy of the Reaganite Right was prepared as early as 1976 by Daniel Bell in Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Blame the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s – rebellious students, civil rights agitators, wild-eyed feminists – for the grievous decline in public morality, cultural literacy, educational standards and everything else that has gone to hell: blame them and not, say, the cultural contradictions of capitalism ... ”