5/02/2005
The gagging of dissent
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When the US went to war against Iraq, a majority of people in the US opposed the invasion but their voices, writes Lewis Lapham, “couldn’t make it past the security guards at the White House or CNN” and were muted to faint echoes “in literary journals of modest circulation, in the letters to the editors of the Washington Post or the New York Times, among a scattering of guests on National Public Radio, in the farther reaches of the Internet”.
When the US went to war against Iraq, a majority of people in the US opposed the invasion but their voices, writes Lewis Lapham, “couldn’t make it past the security guards at the White House or CNN” and were muted to faint echoes “in literary journals of modest circulation, in the letters to the editors of the Washington Post or the New York Times, among a scattering of guests on National Public Radio, in the farther reaches of the Internet”.
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