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Sobran & Cockburn

Sobran & Cockburn

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Ben Sixsmith
Mar 12, 2021
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Declan Leary’s tribute in American Conservative to the American Catholic writer and columnist Joe Sobran made me reflect on parallels between two writers I admire while often disagreeing with: Sobran and the late Irish-American left-wing commentator Alexander Cockburn.

As far as I know, I am the first writer to draw comparisons between them. Their differ…

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