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Article: How I wrote the liberal conspiracy: is it time to revive the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the war against terror?
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- April 1, 2005
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"I WOULDN'T have your job for all the tea in China!" announced Diana Trilling as she waved me into her apartment in Upper West Side Manhattan, her pop eyes bulging under dishevelled reddened hair. "Your story is littered with broken friendships! What a cesspit!"
It was 1983 and I had called on her to talk about the book I was researching on writers and the Cold War, or more specifically on the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She had played a lively role in its dramas, especially in those of its turbulent American Committee. She was also one of the grand old ladies of American letters, a distinguished critic and a formidable polemicist.
She had a point, ...