> ... we should have learned long ago that good politics gets nowhere in a hostile culture. And Seuss did more than any artist and writer of his time to challenge the cruel pieties of cold-war America and to make defying them seem possible, necessary, and droll. As E. J. Kahn wrote in the New Yorker forty years ago, “In his [Seuss’s] books, might never makes right, the meek inhe...
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