tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post1372439406669353903..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Speaking volumesJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-18781900920277691782008-11-19T10:40:00.000-05:002008-11-19T10:40:00.000-05:00It's hard to read any Burke and not come away impr...It's hard to read any Burke and not come away impressed with the clarity of his prose and his thought. But of that period's political writers, I still find myself drawn more to the energy and personality of Hazlitt, both of which come through in his writing with a force that Burke's can't (and, to be fair, doesn't aim to) match.<BR/><BR/>Scott Horton at <I>Harpers</I> has drawn on this letter regularly in writing about the Bush administration's casual approach to warmaking. It's extremely powerful.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.com