bs2> ... 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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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-seussian-left/
#DrSeuss #DissentMagazine #CultureAndPolitics #ColdWarAmerica
The Seussian Left - Dissent Magazine
Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel ed. Richard H. Minear, introduction by Art Spiegelman The New Press, 1999, 272 pp., $25 Somehow, all the hypsters who compiled end-of-century, best-of-the-millennium lists neglected …