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Guy Thomas's avatar

Thank you for this excellent and informative piece. Would that millions would read it and heed your wise counsel

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Joshua Doležal's avatar

How interesting, John, since tomorrow I'm referencing Willa Cather's 1936 letter to the Commonweal, where she claims that enduring art cannot be created from a political motive alone. She'd been accused of being escapist, of not leaning hard enough into labor issues and such (and this after working for years at S.S. McClure's muckraking magazine). I rather like her thinking here. I'm fairly sure she would say much the same now.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/escapism-letter-willa-cather

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