The post I’ve been working on, Post-Industrial Politics, has been unavoidably detained. The crew has developed a touch of scurvy, we lost a topmast somewhere off Greenland, and almost half our casks of bully-beef have gone rotten.
Never fear, we’ll eventually reach port — Lord willing, etc. In the meantime, have a look at this:
In the course of refreshing my memory for the new post, I went and dug it up after more than forty years. As an example of both the prescience and the foolishness of mid-Twentieth Century American liberalism, it would be hard to top.
I’ll have more to say about this later, but for now, it’s all hands aloft to shorten sail.