Rebellions, perversities, and main events
by Murray Kempton · first published 1994
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In today's society, the model citizen is too often one with neither memory nor traditions. Murray Kempton's refusal to relinquish either is among his greatest achievements. He knows that the chaos of daily events can only be understood through the prism of the past. He is a man suffused with a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for the life of the mind. He is that rare reporter whose skepticism has never succumbed to cynicism. The best of Murray Kempton's columns, essays, reviews, and reportage, Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events is, in the words of David Remnick, "like watching an endle
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If you can find a copy of Murray Kempton's _Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events_, there is an essay "The Confusions of Conscience" about just this. (I mention this mainly because the book is well worth having--the man had a way with a sentence.)
on “Can you ethically invest in unethical companies?” ↗I'll read it when the printed Times shows up on my porch, maybe. There is an excellent piece on Oppenheimer in the collection Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events by Murray Kempton.
on “Christopher Nolan on J. Robert Oppenheimer and His Contradictions” ↗