![]() There Scialabba reviewed the Library of America’s two-volume publication of Wendell Berry’s collected essays. Still, I was irked by something he wrote last year, in the January issue of the Baffler. Scialabba, though he never minces words, is rarely given over to rage and never betrays hatred. He seeks to articulate a humane socialism as the best available option for our political economy and, moreover, as an avowedly utopian ideal at which to strive as a society and by which to measure the relative justice of our present arrangements. Such intellectual virtues are not, for Scialabba, a substitute for critique, but its precondition. Far from it: his four decades of literary and political criticism are a testament to the moral and imaginative depths made possible by the consistent application of sympathy, charity and patience to difficult ideas and their equally difficult authors. George Scialabba is not an irksome writer. ![]()
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