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Entry: Jonah one More Time Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/jonah_one_more_time#15928 Post contents: In response to my last reader, I find nothing particularly upsetting about Bramwell's review of Jonah Goldberg's book, except for the presentation of Bloom's Closing of The American Mind as an exemplary American conservative classic.It is simply false to present Jonah's work as a botched attempt to achieve the depth and learning of Bloom's work. With all of its manifold defects, Jonah's book has already surpassed Bloom's dithyramb on the American duty to spread human rights and equality and on the ever-lurking evils of the Krauts as a literary work and as body of arguments. I am appalled that any serious thinker would mistake Bloom for any kind of conservative or for a deep thinker. I would urge Mr. Bramwell to read Bloom more critically before holding him up as the standard that Jonah has failed to reach. Jonah, as Bramwell notices, reprises some of the inaccurate views about fascism that the anti-New Deal Right once expressed. But Bloom does not build on any kind of rightwing anything. His views are those of a Teutonophobic Jewish social democrat of a certain age and background. Sent at: 2008 07 09