Debating Dialectics and Dad’s Suicide Plan
BEN BRANTLEYMay 5, 2011: For the young hustler and the older man whose furtive phone conversation begins the long-awaited new play by Tony Kushner, certain words are more effective than Viagra. I don’t have to spell them out, do I? Well, if you insist. I mean words like “gradualism,” “commodity of fetishism,” “self-alienation” and “sentimental pseudosocialism.”
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