Drinkin' that Bubble-Up

Here's a letter sent today to the editor of the New York Times Book Review:

Critical of "a market-driven society," Henry Giroux asserts that "At the heart of this market rationality is an egocentric philosophy and culture of cruelty" (Letters, May 16).

Let's ignore the tens of millions of people cruelly enslaved, tortured, and slaughtered by their own anti-market governments during the past century – tyrannies cheered on by western intellectuals, such as Prof. Giroux, whose fetish for...