https://www.isegoria.net/2013/05/the-great-crossover/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2013/05/the-great-crossover/comment-page-1/#comment-870698 Candide III Fri, 31 May 2013 11:33:15 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31806#comment-870698 Very funny reading for a reactionary. Mrs. McArdle clearly has a good idea of the score, but has to bow and scrape to the priests every few paragraphs to keep a slot even on the Daily Beast. In exactly the same way, Soviet writers had to insert obligatory references to Lenin or Leninism or something similar, especially if what they really wanted to say strayed from the party line. This phenomenon was so frequent in good Soviet books, such as there were, that the readers acquired the knack of walking past these ideological cow flops without really noticing them.

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