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Article: From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics.(Book review)
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From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics by Emilie Raymond. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2006. 376 pp. Hardcover: $27.95.
It is perhaps symptomatic of today's political climate that there is often an outright refusal to even engage with the ideas of one's opponents, substituting instead an idea of them. Divorced from the actual content of their position, this projection makes one's opponents both comically less and threateningly more serious. Dismissed as irrational simpletons, they are simultaneously armored against any attempt at rational contact; thus each side merely grows shriller in its condemnations and forgoes any ...