{"id":41557,"date":"2012-02-01T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/newsite\/?p=41557"},"modified":"2012-02-01T22:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:46:38","slug":"elizabeth-drew-in-nyrb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/elizabeth-drew-in-nyrb\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Drew in NYRB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nybooks.com\/media\/photo\/2012\/01\/26\/drew_1-022312_jpg_630x469_crop_q85.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"315\" \/><br \/>\nElizabeth Drew has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2012\/feb\/23\/can-we-have-democratic-election\/\" title=\"piece\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> in the <i>New York Review of Books<\/i> about Romney and the election, which deviates pretty far into the &#8220;Greenwaldian&#8221; zone of near-existential dread that used to be the exclusive province of Noam Chomsky types.<\/p>\n<p>I actually have loved Drew ever since she was in <i>The New Yorker<\/i> comparing Ed Meese to Inspector Closeau (about 30 years ago). Her writing was much more doctrinaire than it is now, which means that she&#8217;s gone in the opposite direction from most high-level political journalism. It&#8217;s not like NYRB doesn&#8217;t do this kind of thing often these days (they&#8217;ve been fearless in their anti-AIPAC coverage, and they had Frederick Crews attacking Freud before anyone else). (I think.) Anyway good piece if anyone&#8217;s listening. It&#8217;s nearly impossible to get find this particular flavor of deep structural critique (i.e. &#8220;shrill&#8221; concerns about the fundamental failure of representative democracy) anywhere that you can refer to in &#8220;polite company&#8221; these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Drew has a new piece in the New York Review of Books about Romney and the election, which deviates pretty far into the &#8220;Greenwaldian&#8221; zone of near-existential dread that used to be the exclusive province of Noam Chomsky types. I actually have loved Drew ever since she was in The New Yorker comparing Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41560,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41557\/revisions\/41560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}