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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
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Hilarious, shocking, true!,
This review is from: Incorrect Thoughts: Notes on Our Wayward Culture (Hardcover)
Many probably have never heard of John Leo and seeing how this book is so hard to find, too many people never will. And that's a shame. Leo opens the reader's eyes to the world of political correctness. The book, a collection of Leo's columns over the years, exposes attempts by the media and university elite and turns their arguments upside down. Leo is hardly a political partisan but definitely takes aim at the cultural left and this book is a direct hit.
47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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True Classicism Revived,
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This review is from: Incorrect Thoughts: Notes on Our Wayward Culture (Hardcover)
John Leo is frequently categorized as a conservative thinker, but such a label these days does little to indicate the actual freshness and vitality of his thought. He most resembles in this collection of occasional pieces a contemporary Dr. Johnson, for he applies a similar overwhelming good sense to a host of issues of the day. Perhaps he should be called a classical thinker. No knee jerker when commenting on contemporary matters, he is acutely aware of the claims both of the head and the heart . Underlying his treatment of the media, the educational system, etc., though, is the insistence that the head must balance the feelings in conflicts. Hence, in multiplying instances of its dismissal of facts, logic, or evidence, he exposes our age as one in which grotesque emotion seeks to, and often succeeds in, trumping reason. One leaves this collection not with a resolve to always vote Republican but instead with a determination to push for justice, but without succumbing to the forces of arrant propaganda which solicit on all sides.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting read,
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This review is from: Incorrect Thoughts: Notes on Our Wayward Culture (Hardcover)
A good, interesting read. It's full of bite-sized articles, catagorized into various groupings. My only (real) problem is that reading article-after-article on the craziness of it all, there's never any suggested course of action. Of course, that's not necessarily his 'brief', but it would have made various topics come 'full circle'. However, that's just my opinion. I would recommend this book...and you don't have to be a screaming conservative to appreciate it either!
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