A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

ORIANA FALLACI

Cristina de Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend, translated from the Italian by Marina Harss (New York: Other Press, 2017):

It seems like another lifetime when she was accused of being a Communist in the United States. Back them she had affirmed in an interview, 'I am what is called person of the Left. I don't know what these words mean today--right, left, all shit--but I care a lot about freedom.' In reality she defends her own ideas and most of all her freedom to express them. She has always believed that impending speech is a Fascist act. 'Fascism isn't an ideology, it's a behavior,' she says.

Id. at 260.