Left Hook, Right Hook: the Rules of Engagement

It is August, a brilliant, sunny California morning. I am seated at a table reading correspondence from the Marxist years of the pragmatist philosopher Sidney Hook.

My surroundings, incongruous given the folders of revolutionary socialist meditations spread before me, are the quarters of the Hoover Institution archives at Stanford University. Named after the Republican president, the institution is a top conservative think tank. Hook held a fellowship there for the last 15 years of his

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