By George F. Will -- Sunday, January 10, 2010
Dalton Trumbo (1905-76) was a hero to the American left, partly because of his 1939 antiwar novel "Johnny Got His Gun." Trumbo's title modified the lyric "Johnny, get your gun" from the World War I song "Over There." Trumbo's "Johnny" is horribly maimed in that war. Now we need a novel titled "Berkeley Got Its Liberalism." Pending that, we have Tad Friend's report, in the Jan. 4 New Yorker, on maimed Berkeley.
Read all of George Will's article here.
The abstract of the New Yorker article is here -- the full article is behind a paywall, but Will's article gives you all that you really need to know.
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