to my loyal readers, ian buruma follow-up

Wonderful, thorough, emdashes has brought to our attention a counter-argument to Ian Buruma's New Yorker article on North Korea and Kim Jong Il. I responded on her blog, as her links gave me a little something to help organize my feelings about the piece, which I had noted as frustrating, but didn't pursue earlier this summer. Because I'm lazy.

I also made an interpretation of and plug for this documentary about 20th C dictators. It's relevant to the discussion, and my crit of Buruma.

In other news, I call you "my loyal readers" because my blog has now disappeared from blogspot's list of blogs to watch or whatever it is.

Categories: film, currentevents, newyorker