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🗓️ 4 June 2019
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Last week I received the news that Murray Polner, my co-editor on the book We Who Dared to Say No to War, had died at the age of 91. Murray had been a man of the left, but we thoroughly enjoyed our collaboration on that antiwar volume. In today's episode I cover the ideological diversity of the true antiwar movement.
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0:55.4 | Well, anyway, I sent out a note last week about something sad, a sad development, and that was the |
1:02.3 | death of Murray Polner. Now, Murray and I collaborated on a book back in 2008 called We Who |
1:08.5 | We Who Dared to Say No to War, subtitle American Anti-Wore Writing from 1812 to Now. |
1:15.7 | And it's a great collection. And I want to say a little something about it and about Murray himself and |
1:22.0 | then get into more of the subject of left and right versus war. But what I said in the email was that we |
1:30.7 | published this book together with basic books. It was reviewed very, very nicely. And the thing |
1:37.4 | about it that made it unique was that Murray and I were on completely different sides of almost |
1:42.7 | every issue other than war. Murray had spent his life in progressive |
1:47.3 | circles. And of course, you know, I didn't. He was also involved in Jewish peace circles. He was the |
1:53.7 | editor of present tense, published by the American Jewish Committee from 1973 to 1990. I believe he was the one and only editor of that publication. |
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