By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC. “Anne Applebaum is an acerbic right-wing journalist…” (Susan Watkins, New Left Review, 126, Nov./Dec. 2020). Good writers always state their central arguments as directly as possible, and with the greatest clarity. The more you get away from clarity, the more you force the reader to ask questions about intentions, motive, ...
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