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I like to imagine Joel’s spirit, in triumphant benevolence on the arc of history, looking with the mercy of a good Christian upon the wretched and irredeemable soul of the New York Times, when it too gives up its ghost in the oncoming apocalypse which he prophesied and it prepares. “One is, after all, known by one’s enemies,” he wrote about the New York Review [1], and so it makes sense to re-read his recent obituary in this same light.
One close friend, John Clark, commented after reading the obituary: “I remember talking to Joel years ago right after he canceled his subscription to the New York Times. He said ‘I can’t take that much hegemony.'” And his daughter Molly wrote in a post on facebook, “I can only imagine the mingled response of pride and disdain with which my dear departed father would greet his own obituary in the New York Times, an institution he had critiqued a thousand times over his life.” And so it is owed to Kovel’s memory to reflectupon what this central organ of empire has to say about its lifelong antagonist. I imagine Joel speaking to the Times in the words of William Blake, whose ‘Proverbs of Hell’ are placed throughout this text as guideposts to navigate the liberal inferno: “He who has suffer’d you to impose on him knows you.”
full: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/26/joel-kovel-vs-the-new-york-times/
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