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Civil Re-enactors

In Chomsky vs. Buckley, 1969, Philly playwright Bruce Walsh explores the notion that debate is futile - nothing more than a silly intellectual parlor game.

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Posted: Thu, Sep. 6, 2012, 12:00 AM

Civil Re-enactors

Cooking up a dignified but futile era of left-right relations.

Michael Alan Goldberg

City Paper

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