From the Academy

Chancellor Kimpton and the Chicago Review

“When a butcher says that his heart bleeds for you,” Dr. Johnson remarked to Boswell, “he means nothing by it.” It is cant. Similarly, when a Marxist bursts into furious protests against threats to freedom of the press, I am amused: it is cant. For the Communist and the Communist-sympathizer, if they believe in their first principles, care nothing for such bourgeois liberties. “Freedom?” said Lenin. “What for? What for?”