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To: KLP who wrote (157003)	1/25/2005 11:06:16 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<...Windschuttle's Chomsky article is of a piece with his general rewinding of his own psyche. Who knows, he may eventually get back to childhood. In his most seriously left-wing political period, as a confident young veteran of tabloid journalism in his mid-twenties, he edited the Sydney University student paper Honi Soit in a vintage year in the 1960s, and a little later he was one of the editors of The Old Mole. His journalism helped introduce to a provincial Australian audience key pieces from the New York Book Review, and he helped to introduce to an Australian audience, Chomsky's seminal political book, American Power and the New Mandarins. This does not sit very well with the picture of himself at that period that he now gives. Windschuttle now suggests that he was a naive young Stalinist at the time, but in fact he was a good deal better than that. The overseas influences that he helped introduce into Australian intellectual life included much better things than naive Stalinism. It's those things he is now slandering in his attack on Chomsky. See my Open Letter members.optushome.com.au for further elaboration on this point. As an old associate and contemporary of Windschuttle I organised a debate between him and John Docker on the subject of postmodernism in the central area of my shop in 1996. Windschuttle's criticism of postmodernism was more than half correct (again see my Open Letter) but in retrospect that was an intermediate stage in a shift to the far right...>> archives.econ.utah.edu An open letter to Keith and Liz Windschuttle members.optushome.com.au