PUCK is the want-to-be Version of Gradon Carters Vanity Fair, that morphed into ‘Air Mail’ , bathed in reductive nostalgia, held afloat by garish ADVERTISEMENTS! No more Dominick Dunne: But nerver fear, Neo-Con gouhl Julia Ioffie, offers the parched reader of the inefable? Reader don’t miss Jonathan Greenblatt’s interview in The Times! Fellow Travelers!
Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary