“Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.”

—  Camille Paglia

On Mark Halperin’s inclusion of a lengthy quote by convicted murderer Jack Henry Abbott in his One Hundred Years of Homosexuality.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf

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