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Even those who shared Senator Joseph McCarthy’s politics acknowledged his fatal flaw: when thinking about the opposition, he generalized when he should have distinguished. He failed to see the difference between an ordinary American of the Left and a Soviet spy.
Dina Nerozzi is no Joe McCarthy. She is a distinguished physician who teaches psychoneuroendocrinology and has published such works, read by us all, as Hypothalamic Dysfunctions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. She is also the author, three years ago, of the brilliant and moving novelized account of her husband’s long imprisonment during the darkest days of Mani pulite, a shattering experience that led her to become one of Italy’s most prominent crusaders against judicial injustice.
It is therefore a disappointment to find that this wide-ranging essay has some of the same failures to distinguish that destroyed McCarthy’s influence. Her scientific logic occasionally (but at key moments) melts in the heat of her political passion and her outrage at the decline of public and personal morality, especially with regard to sex, the family, and the teachings of the Church.
(Nerozzi, Dina: L’uomo nuovo: Dallo scimpanzé al bonobo. Catanzaro: Rubettino, 2008)
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