Talk:John Judis

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Probable damage in first section of this article

The first paragraph contains the following sentence:

He is highly regarded for his cursory knowledge of history and politics, as well as his sober writing style.

The first clause is contradictory on its face; nobody is highly regarded for cursory knowledge of anything, let alone knowledge of their area of expertise. Moreover, the first clause is inconsistent with the second clause in that the latter is approving and the former dismissive. Finally, the edit that introduced the change replaced unusually deep with cursory

Since the original sentence appears to me to amount to an unreferenced political opinion, I have removed the whole thing from the article.

The last sentence in that paragraph has a broken citation. Its label says it's from National Review, but the link points to The New Republic. The link itself is broken, leading to the front page of the TNR website. I have corrected the publisher property and replaced the link with one that does work and appears to be permanent.

I worry a little bit that the sentence containing the citation amounts to a political slur, given how many Americans, particularly on the political right, regard Marxism. But the sentence is factual and well-cited as far as I can tell.

Lastly I corrected a misspelling of minorities.

Hbo@egbok.com (talk) 07:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The person who wrote "He is highly regarded for his cursory knowledge of history and politics, as well as his sober writing style." is notable, if not highly regarded, for his cursory knowledge of the English language. ---Dagme (talk) 19:44, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]