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For Who the Times Thinks

Just as the present United States Supreme Court is a political court (see Brent Bozell’s column last week), the book review section of the New York Times is a political book review section—and in two senses: 1) It plugs the books it finds congenial and kills off, and don’t think it can’t, books that are inconvenient to the Times’ anti-anti-Communist, pro-Liberal-Welfare-State, pro-Zionist, pro-egalitarianism position; 2) it carries a high percentage of reviews—not, of course, so high a percentage as to undermine its reputation with unwary readers for authoritative and detached criticism—calculated to make the customers think what the Times wants them to think.

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For Who the Times Thinks

Just as the present United States Supreme Court is a political court (see Brent Bozell’s column last week), the book review section of the New York Times is a political book review section—and in two senses: 1) It plugs the books it finds congenial and kills off, and don’t think it can’t, books that are inconvenient to the Times’ anti-anti-Communist, pro-Liberal-Welfare-State, pro-Zionist, pro-egalitarianism position; 2) it carries a high percentage of reviews—not, of course, so high a percentage as to undermine its reputation with unwary readers for authoritative and detached criticism—calculated to make the customers think what the Times wants them to think.