The Suicidal Corporation
Weaver, Paul H.
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...he worries about the American bourgeoisie...
...Weaver discovered, accurately, that "the Robber Barons" were visionary-revolutionary-scientific-collectivists, but the only "scientific" thing he notices about them is negative: i.e., their anti Adam Smithian "scientific" control of their markets...
...PAUL DUKE: Just to play devil's advocate for a moment, here, Charlie: I've heard that some people are hinting that much of what Rick says about congressional staffs is very similar to the ideas expressed in a book by American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Malbin called Unelected Representatives...
...The panel sighs disconsolately, then smiles and nods at the camera...
...Marxists will revive and grow frisky...
...There is a possibility, just a possibility-Weaver fervently hopes for it-that American businessmen will realize that the old system has stopped working, and that they will "convert" to capitalism...
...This public affairs "mind" viewed capitulation to destructive policies as "realistic...
...In fact, one cannot read this book without being ceaselessly aware of its conflicting audiences, who will be given a ride on a political roller coaster of a kind they have never before experienced...
...He shows how, along with liberal Democrats, the corporations fought for inflation...
...HELEN WAN: Paul, a lot of people in this town are just going to be shocked by Rick's analysis of the way power is handled in this town...
...Weaver breathes the words "racism" and "imperialism" but once...
...Marxists will stomp off, although the smartest will stick around to see if they can figure out Weaver's...
...they sought, says Weaver, to shape "everything from consumer demand to the decisions of government regulators...
...that it tolerated anybody and everybody's public policy, however damaging to itself, to business, to the economy...
...If his reforms succeed, the Soviet empire will be stronger and more dangerous...
...In a cold anger, Weaver lays out the clinical evidence of the corporations' collective loss of responsibilitymore than twenty years of it, all involving the state, i.e., both political parties...
...And he ends his book with twenty-two modest proposals, all pertaining to public policy...
...He shows that the great trade associations are devastated, as companies individually rush to the state to beg for protection in the face of the powerful new external competitors...
...On the contrary, he found they were "visionaries": they were revolutionaryscientific-collectivists who saw great uses for the state, had no use whatsoever for the free market, and wanted to organize and control their own markets...
...An executive at the Ford Motor Company for two years, he made a series of shocking observations about corporate psychology and behavior...
...But, interestingly, these very weaknesses of Weaver's book also contribute heavily to its strengths...
...and Weaver, the neoconservative regulatory expert, was stunned...
...a remarkably accurate description, and one which would bring the identical mystified expression to the faces of both John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman...
...He intends to speed things up and to excise the corporatist ideology from the century-old institution...
...They will find it morally despicable...
...I hope that conservatives can tear their eyes away from their standard repertoireswith which even the editor of this journal has professed himself bored-long enough to grasp what an immense gift Weaver has bestowed on them...
...This omission of the scientific dimension is a flaw...
...At this point, leftist and liberal scholars, who have been reading away attentively and cheerfully, will be astonished by Weaver's ignorance...
...They were mortal enemies of Adam Smith: for Smith's "Invisible Hand" they sought to substitute "The Visible Hand" of "scientific" management...
...Rick's book is a 793-page whopper-almost as heavy as the Continuing Resolution, eh, Rick...
...He tells executives they must learn to think differently, or they will be "taken over" or die...
...In this long section, there will be pain on the left...
...From the first to the last page of this book, Weaver has proved down to the ground and beyond that the political and economic "thinking" of American Big Businessmen, on whom all of our lives do depend, has atrophied to a catastrophic degree...
...And conservatives, all, will stare into space with stony faces, visualizing the hordes of Hobbesian revelers who will come capering out from the tons of state under which they are now imprisoned, to engage in unspeakable innovations...
...Leftists and Marxists will read away cheerfully until they discover that there is no social history in this THE SUICIDAL CORPORATION Paul H. Weaver/Simon and Schuster/$18.95 Edith Efron 42 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988 book, thus that their most crucial symbolic events are missing...
...They are, in their way, utterly devastating...
...Here are some of his most traumatic discoveries, minus the detailed observations of public policy problems in which they are embedded: He found that the corporate public affairs "mind"--my word-was secretive: it would only release Good News, it concealed Bad News...
...The libertarians will scarcely be miserable, but they will be agitated by their lack of moral philosophy...
...Equally attentive conservative scholars will conclude with indignation that Weaver has overdosed on Marxist "social control theory...
...corporations for the first time in history and he shows the signs of increasing institutional panic...
...He reports that he assessed the solidity of the documentation and screened out the "tendentious...
...Despite our friendship, Israel cannot survive forever as an island in a sea of hatred SOUTH AFRICA: If the ANC revolutionaries suc ceed, African blacks will simply trade their white African rulers for white Russians...
...They are invading the market, taking over the "suicidal" corporations, and turning them into lean mean profit machines, so that they can compete in the global market...
...and they will find that this nationalist neoconservative has ruthlessly purged his work of Marxist "impurities...
...Mostly I talked to scientists...
...Leftist scholars (and liberals who have read them), who have been enjoying the narrative and smiling at Weaver's discomfiture, will abruptly stop smiling, because this is the point at which Weaver glides right through the "Galbraithian" looking glass...
...He found that this corporate "mind" saw public policy, whatever its nature-it had no policy of its ownsolely as a means of extracting protection from the state or a competitive edge in its own narrow slice of the market (in this case, Ford vs...
...As I said earlier, this is clearly a nationalist neoconservative writing here, and the left will recognize this...
...I find Weaver's brain scan accurate...
...A geopolitical briefing that's as worldly wise as it is provocative and instructive:' -Kirkus Reviews "Must re for all Americans:' -CAL THOMAS, syndicated columnist "I hope that US...
...At this instant, for maybe a millisecond, the only people in the world who will positively love this book are the Marxists...
...He reviews the corporations' support for Nixon's wage and price controls...
...He is a somewhat absent-minded "revolutionary": an intellectual revolutionary who does not scan the horizon for enemy 44 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988 machine-gun emplacements is a little thoughtless...
...I am in profound agreement with Weaver when he says that if one is to defend the American productive system, one must be willing to criticize its flaws, indeed its evils, and to do so with the, intellectual vigor and probity one brings to one's critiques of other institutions...
...The Suicidal Corporation is the story of how a neoconservative scholar walked through a minefield of leftist literature on the corporations and came out at the other end to discover that he had become a libertarian...
...Libertarians, all of whom are the children, legitimate or illegitimate, of Ayn Rand, have also thought it was breaking down-that is one of the major themes dramatized in Rand's Atlas Shrugged-but few read socialist literature and never have they seen such a pile-up of evidence for the breakdown, on a strictly economic level...
...They will strongly agree with Weaver that this is a "corporate welfare state...
...His book has flaws...
...Johnson glowers and nods at the camera...
...WHINES JOHNSON: I think the term "liberal bias" is a weapon in the hands of the New Right...
...Then Weaver presents his own astonishing corrective...
...We also find the Congress in this town, not to mention, in this town, the media HEDRICK SMITH: Which has no liberal bias, according to a poll sponsored by the Times-Mirror Company...
...He found that the corporation was not a victim of the liberal and radical pressure groups, but their pandering accomplice...
...Throughout the next section, they will be progressively more miserable, because Weaver, intent on his quest, pays no attention to their moral philosophy...
...He discovers that FDR thought "corporatism a fine thing and opened the flood gates to a veritable avalanche of corporatism...
...HELEN WAN: In this town, Rick's book says, the President has a lot of power...
...Rick has some interesting things to say about the way power is handled in Washington...
...It was in their self-interest to do so, but in this realm (and others) their self-interest was confluent with the interest of the nation...
...But I have to say that such accusations seem questionable, since Rick acknowledges both Malbin and Polsby in the acknowledgments...
...can do over the next dozen years to ensure peace, prosperity, and related blessings in the 21st century...
...HELEN WAN: Ah ha, ha, ha...
...And one of the crucial tenets of this new "public relations" was to keep publicly verifiable facts true (again he quotes Bernays) after which the Great Corporatist Monarchs were free to say or conceal anything they chose...
...He found that the corporation was not a victim of the state but its accomplice: although this corporate "mind" mechanically recited the litany of "free enterprise" and complained ceaselessly about big government, it identified with the state, was hostile to the free market, and constantly invited or eagerly cooperated with government intervention for...
...But the people inside the White House don't like that, and there's a lot of talk that the people inside other executive agencies don't THE POWER GAME: HOW WASHINGTON WORKS Hedrick Smith/Random House/$22.50 John Podhoretz THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988 45...
...To his astonishment, Weaver discovered that the founding fathers of corporate America-Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Mellon, Duke-were not the "ruthless individualists of American (and conservative) legend...
...He shows the economic incoherence of the Reagan Administration, in which both "corporatist" and free-market trends coexist and war, with neither Reagan nor the Republicans appearing to be disturbed by the self-contradictions...
...And with their right hands, they were altruists...
...It is their ineffable simplicity, their quietness, that tell one that the public affairs and policy minds do not know, chronically do not know, what they are doing...
...HEDRICK SMITH: You bet I do, Paul...
...fallacies...
...He read the established liberal classics of corporate history, he dug up original documentation, and he plowed through a mass of leftist and Marxist analyses (for it is primarily the left that constantly monitors the corporations...
...But to continue: The Power Game is the most comprehensive book written this decade about the workings of this once-sleepy Southern town that is also, many observers believe, the capital of the United States...
...He concluded that it was absurd to defend a "capitalist" institution which was hostile to capitalism, and immoral to defend such corruption...
...There are no multinational corporations...
...His proposals are deceptively simple...
...I shall try, throughout this review, to capture the perspectives of the various groups to whom the author is speaking...
...He shows that, as a group, business is splintering, degenerating...
...A Presidential candidate who tries to be a carbon copy of President Reagan and promises only to continue his policies will be left at the starting gate...
...they will seek out signs of leftist "contamination" and they will find it...
...Wan sobs quickly, drops alive bunny into a pot of boiling water, then smiles and nods at the camera...
...Weaver is not omniscient...
...It seriously tests the proposition that there is authentic intellectual freedom within the center to right world...
...PAUL DUKE: What a delightful bit of Washingtoniana, Charlie...
...HEDRICK SMITH: Ha, ha...
...Weaver's observations at Ford, in the late 1970s, where he was director of economic communicationsa job he naively imagined would be an intellectual activity-are the spring Edith Efron is the author most recently of The Apocalyptics: Cancer and the Big Lie (Simon and Schuster...
...They could damage your paperback sale...
...They granted that profits were necessary, but ceaselessly proclaimed themselves-they are richly quoted by Weaver-to be dedicated, above all else, to society, to their communities, and to the welfare of others, and they invited regulatory supervision of their activities so that the public might oversee their works...
...The Suicidal Corporation was written by Paul Weaver, a former professor of government at Harvard and a former senior editor of Fortune...
...They will grow somber, some even hopeless...
...but occasionally I met with corporate executives in the U.S., Canada, and West Germany...
...At this point, conservative readers will be prostrate with shock at Weaver's traitorous attack on the American economic system...
...It was, says the nowangry Weaver, profoundly anti-democratic and hostile to the Jeffersonian center...
...The Congress in this town covets that power...
...Liberals will start moral muttering about equality...
...This part of Weaver's analysis and the memorable phrase, "The Visible Hand," come from Alfred Chandler, the great Harvard historian of the corporations...
...HELEN WAN: Charlie, wasn't it extremely dangerous for Rick to come out and say such incredibly controversial and biting things about the changing nature of power in America...
...Having found the original pattern he was seeking, he moves quickly past the dying "Robber Barons," zips through the Depression and the New Deal, and traces the development of "corporatism" all the way to the Reagan era...
...CHARLES MacTROWEL: I'm sorry...
...A rescue force with high intelligence and an understanding of the international economy is on the march, the words "hostile takeover" emblazoned on its flag...
...They poured their princely philanthropies into the great scientific, medical, and social science institutes, foundations, and universities which still bear their names and from which have flowed, ever since, a wealth of knowledge of inestimable benefit to mankind...
...To the very degree that groups were hostile to business, to that degree did this corporate "mind" respect them, and even fund them...
...He equates his proposals to behaviormodification therapy and says they will help corporate executives to alter and retrain their thinking processes so that they can act in their own self-interest...
...CHARLES MacTROWEL: Well, shut my mouth, Paul...
...A corrective trend, a revolutionary trend, has appeared...
...If, by the slightest chance, one cannot be a functioning intellectual in that world and criticize the corporations, then the con servative intellectual movement is not an intellectual movement, and it is time that this fact were known within their world...
...The modest proposals are a list of the thinking processes in which that "mind" does not engage...
...He found that, save for publicly verifiable fact, the corporate "mind" frequently told lies-gratuitous lies...
...He hasn't...
...Well done...
...And most agitating to this author is the fact that all are using the very regulatory machinery created by the "Robber Barons" to strangle their descendants and that the descendants are letting them do it, indeed that they are collaborating in the process...
...WHINES JOHNSON: Forest depletion is nothing to laugh about, Charlie...
...He has, in effect, conducted a century-long biopsy of a slice of tissue in a vital organ...
...Not knowing can kill you...
...CHARLES MacTROWEL: Paul, it is the thesis of my brother Rick that the growth of congressional staffs in the last twenty years, coupled with changes in campaign financing and the loosening of party loyalties, have forever altered the nature of politics in America...
...But I do call Polsby a "keen observer" on page 90...
...He found that even as this corporate "mind" was blindly opportunistic, ceaselessly seeking "loopholes" through which it could creep, it fantas, sized and portrayed itself as a "statesman-altruist" dedicated to the public weal, and pompously scorned the very idea of open and honest advocacy as "self-interested...
...HEDRICK SMITH: A man's gotta say what a man's gotta say, according to a senior White House official...
...Well, actually, I acknowledge only Malbin...
...Finally, we'll discuss how Rick treats the ideological clashes between the Republicans and Democrats with the conscience of us all, Whines Johnson of the Washington Post...
...To understand that is to understand something of vital importance-even if one does not quite know what to do about it...
...Then he widens his lens to encompass the globe and shows the economy under pressure not only from within but from without...
...But a careful, scrupulous, analytically accurate biopsy by even the most reductionist scientist may bring information of life and death significance...
...MacTrowell takes a piece of hay out from between his teeth, removes a cracker from the barrel next to him, and smiles and nods at the camera...
...WHINES JOHNSON: I just want to say that it is very dangerous to cross the New Right...
...board to his examination of a century of corporate history...
...It's the kind of book of which the sainted Sam Rayburn used to say, "Iffen ya cain't read the thang, jes' use it as a doorstopper...
...Now international competition is moving in on U.S...
...And I just want to say to my good friend Rick: Yea bo...
...We'll discuss Rick's view of the changes in Washington with our delightfully folksy chum Charles MacTrowel of the Richmond Times Dispatch...
...I f this first part of Weaver's book will be fascinating to readers of all political colorations, the following section will make all of them tense as cats, for this is where Weaver undertakes his "Galbraithian" voyage...
...His story seemed bizarre to them, and his continued insistence that the public policy pattern he had discovered was of crucial importance seemed unreasonable...
...BOOK REVIEWS...
...They were not advocates of dog-eatdog laissez-faire capitalism who fought against the taming efforts of the state...
...Had he simply added a classic history of basic science to his reading list, such as Richard Shryock's American Medical Research: Past and Present (1947), and had he consulted a solid scientist or professor of medicine who knew the history of basic science and also knew the history of the corporations (a combination only findable on the left), he would have learned that those Corporatist Monarchs saw science and social science as the future...
...He has overdosed on "the two cultures," Teacknowl master of 0la~Y~~~luepri~ for `VictoryWithout!War" in thiscenturyandthenext, "l p c and p e crilrque that etails what the U.S...
...At Fortune, he rapidly established for himself that he had not bumped into an aberrant corporation: in a 1981 survey of Fortune 500 CEOs, he found that more were alumni of Ford than of any other company...
...It is the greatest shock in The Suicidal Corporation...
...What Weaver was observing in 1978, I observed in the mid and late 1980s...
...Many, perhaps most, of his flaws are those of a man who accords primacy to economics over the culture, who pursues his economic thesis single-mindedly outside the complex historic, social, moral, scientific, and technological context, which leads him into a strongly expressed reductionism...
...After the publication of my own book on cancer, I found myself on a long lecture tour in the scientific world...
...Those are the three sections of this closely reasoned book...
...It's a bold and courageous theory, Paul, and while many in America might scoff, there's some hardy souls around here who think it's done a good deal to restore a bit of sanity to the opinion climate in Washington...
...Although I met with no public affairs or PR executives-but with executives of research-intensive companies many of whom are themselves scientists who think and talk freely in private-I saw the identical corporate "pattern" in their public face and behavior...
...With his neoconservative friends, he quarreled...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988 43 on the general humanist ignorance of science...
...Not knowing has no advantage over knowing...
...And a new generation of baby boomers with liberal social values is emerging in various parts of the land who are thinking in similar terms...
...Rick was courting himself some disaster there-possibly the wrath of the New Right...
...The famous founding fathers practiced what they preached-up to a point, says Weaver...
...Camera cuts to Smith's face• he swings,his head toward it, nods and smiles...
...Chrysler...
...A biopsy, by definition, is decontextualized: there is no body...
...policy makers-not a single one of whom could have written a comparable book-have enough sense to read what President Nixon has to say and act accordingly.' -DR ZBIGNIEW RR7.FZtnMU "Nixon's analysis and his potion ' Pe sUpl'ell~el more realistic than those offered by can 'dates of either party...
...It is not bizarre to me...
...He shows how they fought against deflationary policies under Reagan, until they grasped the devastating consequences to themselves, to the business world, and to the country, and became frightened...
...And here Weaver hoists his own libertarian flag on which are writ the words: "limited government," "individual rights," "property rights," "free market...
...Weaver diagnosed this corporate "mind" as "corrupt," "pathological," and "suicidal...
...And getting it...
...How does Rick portray the way power is handled in this bustling metropolis...
...The panel gasps, then smiles and nods at the camera...
...And indeed his story is bizarre to anyone who has not read about the phenomenon or witnessed it at first hand...
...A few strong paragraphs of such information would have rendered Weaver's portrait of the "Robber Barons" more morally nuanced...
...From the first to the last page of this book, Weaver has proved down to the ground and beyond that the political and economic "thinkdeath significance...
...It lied even when it was in its own interest to tell the truth...
...Indeed, they created the knowledge-producing classes...
...He reports how lobbyists-the sign of the disintegration and panic-infest Washington, D.C...
...But Weaver may take heart...
...they don't care if you call the system "corporatism" or "capitalism," it's simply the latest stage of the system and it is breaking down, as all along they have said it would...
...Once again, Weaver's political world shifts on its axis...
...That very same flaw mars not just a short section, but the entirety of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book: Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectual ism in American Life (1964...
...The experience led him to immerse himself in the vast literature of corporate history to discover the origins of the pattern he had found...
...CHARLES MacTROWEL: I'm about fixed to agree with you, Helen...
...He found that the corporation was a moral and ideological neuter...
...Liberals, who don't on the whole like businessmen, but do on the whole like to eat, will grow morose...
...we'll analyze that in some detail with our very own journalistic version of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, Helen Wan of the Wall Street Journal...
...AID TO THE CONTRAS: Those in the House of Representatives who want to kill the cause of democracy in Nicaragua should keep in mind that Congress will be held responsible for the consequences...
...Here, Weaver traps the beast he is searching for...
...Flaws and all, it is worth its weight in gold as a guarantor of the integrity of the conservative intellectual movement...
...I can't answer such charges, because I am a newsman and therefore maintain a heroic and godlike objectivity at all times...
...Wan puts down her butcher knife, cleans her glasses, fixes her hair, and smiles and nods at the camera...
...B ut suddenly a shaft of light pierces the darkness...
...Are the conservatives and neoconservatives now going to be happy...
...There are no oppressed at home There are no oppressed in the Third World...
...ISRAEL: Israel's interests lie in negotiating peace now, when it is stronger than its adversaries...
...THE '88 ELECTIONS: Americans are never satisfied with success...
...Free market financiers and corporatist subversives will suddenly arrive...
...What does Rick's book say about the changes in Washington politics...
...This is recognizably the ancestral pattern...
...The founding fathers were advocates of "corporatism," which, says Weaver, "is the philosophy of government-given competitive advantage for business enterprise...
...like fleas...
...In this town, Rick says, there is the President...
...Anti-reductionist readers who place primacy on the culture over economics, as do I, will all make variants of this criticism...
...CHARLES MacTROWEL :. Heh, heh, heh...
...This is the first scholarly critique of the corporations by a qualified intellectual to emerge from the non-liberal, non-left world...
...The result was a devastating analysis of the economic irresponsibility of Big Business and a report on an emerging corrective-and an astonishing solution of his own...
...Since Weaver will antagonize conservatives more than any other group, his book is, in its way, a test case...
...In fact, they are a photographic negative of the corporate "mind" with which the book began, but which by the end of the analysis he has proved to be almost universal...
...Gradually, Weaver sees the whole country turning into "corporatists," with everybody in sight seeking power and privilege from the state...
...Immediately after the "Robber Baron" section, the political climate changes for Weaver's readers...
...They effectively made a deal with the state: the state would protect their interests and privileges in exchange for their proclamations of devotion to the public weal-and in exchange for bureaucratic supervision and regulation...
...In this section, which will arouse such dark moral emotions in all of Weaver's readers, the author is making horrifying discoveries, all of which are true...
...Those men created scientific America...
...Pro-business conservatives will be glum and distrustful...
...DR JEANS IQRKPATRKK "A maskrful work," -HF.NRYKISSI11GER VICMWIT80DTWAR, RICHARD NIXON ON GORBACHEV It is a mistake to believe that Gorbachev is a foreign policy moderate...
...And with a strange new strategy called "public relations" influenced by the latest beliefs of social science-the purpose of which, according to one of its founders, Edward L. Bernays, was to create an "invisible government...
...Libertarians' eyes will fill with tears of relief...
...He fears their wealth will be run off with by capitalists from other countries for the benefit of their bourgeoisies...
...It is a historically startling and politically adventurous book, an attack on "oligopoly," on "corporatism," and on the liberal "corporate welfare state" by an individualist-capitalist who is shooting at both the corporations and at Big Government with collectivist-socialist ammunition...
...With their left hands, they gouged out special favors from the state (cartels, trusts, monopolies, tariffs, subsidies, land grants) and ruled over their "scientifically" organized fiefdoms...
...The publisher describes The Suicidal Corporation as a book written "in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith's New Industrial State-but from a free market perspective...
...0 PAUL DUKE: Good evening, I'm Paul Duke, and this is a special parody edition of "Washington Week in Review...
...He had believed, like many others in his world, that there had been a golden age of laissez-faire capitalism in the United States...
...Baby boomers with free-market propensities will bounce in, but will keep bouncing because they will not know where to put their liberal social values...
...Even after Weaver's furious cleansing, the body of facts is not part of the standard conservative repertoire...
...They were, as one scholarly source puts it, the "prophets of regulation...
...There have also been reports from unnamed people who actually read things published on substances other than newspaper broadsheet that his ideas about campaign finance changes and party weakness come directly out of Consequences of Party Reform, a book by political scientist Nelson Polsby...
...Some are the flaws of a "convert" to capitalism who has learned, and explains with clarity, the theory of the free market, but has not yet integrated his theory into the living political and economic context where institutionalized, interdependent, and interlocked forces, a century of them, are blindly massed against all but the most minute change...
...An anti-protectionist, anti-parasitical free-market movement is emerging among energetic young businessmen and financiers...
...They were just terrific...
...He does not celebrate the death of the bourgeoisie...
...short-range advantage...
...General Motors vs...
...You sure have cleared out some forests with this tome...
...WHINES JOHNSON: The Continuing Resolution is nothing to laugh about, Paul...
...Written in a lively style and crammed with documentation to support his points, it is, simultaneously, a book on economics and a book of ideas...
...HELEN WAN: Ah ha ha ha...
...The shell-shocked neoconservative left Ford and returned to Fortune and to his neoconservative friends...
...Tonight we will focus on a new book about this wild and outrageous town, The Power Game, by our old friend and frequent colleague, Hedrick Smith, formerly of the New York Times...
...Charlie, you've been a resident of this burg for more years than most seventeen-year-olds today can count up John Podhoretz, a frequent contributor, pays his own form of tribute in this review to the recent Supreme Court decision affirming First Amendment protections of parody...
...The reason for conservative gloom in this particular section is that Weaver discovered the birth of the attributes of the modern corporate "mind" in the minds of the "Robber Barons...
...some will start scouring the pages for the word liberty...
...PAUL DUKE: I am terribly sorry...
...PAUL DUKE: Helen Wan, you're an unmarried woman in her thirties who holds no brief for gay conservatives, as anyone knows who read your recent piece in Regardie's, "The Lavender Bund...
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