Fathers and Sons

McWhorter v. Coates

John McWhorter’s response to the Elect, a term of his own invention, resembles Stepan Trofimovich’s own speculation on his son’s infatuation with socialism, “And you know, it all comes from that same half-bakedness, from sentimentality! They’re fascinated not by realism, but by the sensitive, ideal aspect of socialism, its religious tinge, so to speak, …