The central fact of American political discourse today is a startling convergence between left and right positions. On the one hand, the favoured and feted of serious non-fiction—those rare liberal academics and authors with policy clout and routine access to the major media—have lately espoused positions that dovetail with the Bush administration’s defence of torture and the suspension of habeas…
Timothy Brennan
Timothy Brennan’s most recent book is Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia, 2006). He has written for the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and The Nation, and teaches at the University of Minnesota.