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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Uncle Academic's List of Tributes to Alexander Cockburn
Here are several tributes -- some qualified -- to Alexander Cockburn (who died on July 20, in Germany, where he was undergoing treatment for cancer):
by Hendrik Herzberg at The New Yorker
by Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast
by Harald Meyerson at The American Prospect
by Jack Shafer at Reuters
by James Fallows at The Atlantic
by James Hodgson at The Guardian, UK
at The Nation
by John Nichols
Tribute to Alexander Cockburn -- several comments, and links to more extensive remembrances
at CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
by James Ridgeway
by Robert Pollin
by David Price
by Fred Gardner
by Silvia Plachy -- a photo essay: Cockburn at The Village Voice in the 70s
Remembering James Cockburn , by readers of CounterPunch
8+ additional obits and remembrances on this Google search page (NYTimes, WP, LATimes among them
And there are some convenient lists of columns by Cockburn at various places
The Week (UK Edition)
The Nation
and especially "The Best of Beat the Devil"
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