Catskills Conservatism
Today on Tablet
October 25, 2011
Brace yourselves. As “The Arbiter,” today in Tablet Magazine senior writer Liel Leibovitz approaches Dirty Dancing. And where many see a sweet love story, a tale of burgeoning adulthood and self-actualization, and a killer soundtrack, Liel sees the embodiment of all that was ugly about 1980s-vintage Reaganism and its resentment-filled condemnation of the 1960s.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
