I am sorry to see a man whose writing I have very much enjoyed - Joseph Epstein - descend to this kind of crap in the @WSJ.
Especially because on his main point - about the honorific - I mostly agree with him. But this piece is cringe-inducing and dripping with resentment. /1
Especially because on his main point - about the honorific - I mostly agree with him. But this piece is cringe-inducing and dripping with resentment. /1
https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1337757909795606528
@WSJ Epstein wrote a wonderful book on resentment and its uglier brother, "ressentiment," and it is amazing that he is completely unaware of the degree to which something he understands so well now afflicts him so mightily. This piece is not only resentful, but self-pitying. /2
Epstein attempts to dress that resentment and self-pity behind a breezy style for which he would have likely clobbered a hapless student in his own classes. The lack of self-awareness is remarkable in a writer whose candidness was part of his appeal. /3
I guess it's one more example that Trump is finally, even at the end, going to reach deep into the depleted ranks of once-sensible conservatives and get them all to abase themselves as the final installment in their careers. Oh well. /4x
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