What's the matter with ... R.W. Johnson

From Africa is a Country Wed Sep 10 2014, 13:00:02

The South African RW Johnson has undergone a transformation of youthful radical to smug "anti-apartheid" liberal anti-communist and scholar of the French Left (think Tony Judt-lite), resulting in the final incarnation of a  pompous red-faced "liberal" colonial academic flinging reductionist tribal stereotypes into the public sphere. His intellectual credibility was forfeited a few years ago [...]

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