{"id":144138,"date":"2021-04-30T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/04\/cold-war-louis-menand-free-world-review\/"},"modified":"2021-04-30T08:59:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T08:59:22","slug":"the-art-of-saying-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/30\/the-art-of-saying-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Saying Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an academic post at Harvard and a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, New Yorker critic Louis Menand is like a modern version of the elite cultural and political figures he writes about in his new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Twenty years after he won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/04\/cold-war-louis-menand-free-world-review\/\">Jacobin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an academic post at Harvard and a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, New Yorker critic Louis Menand is like a modern version of the elite cultural and political figures he writes about in his new book, The Free World: Art and T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144139,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144138\/revisions\/144139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}