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| | Sullivan's Travels |
 | | Sullivan's public airing and working out of his conservatism, Catholicism, and homosexuality (although not necessarily in that order) seems to me in the tradition of a generation of English journalists who used the personal essay as social criticism -- Malcolm Muggeridge, Cyril Connolly, and Arthur Koestler, for instance. |
 | | The modern media sexual culture has moved forward, and Andrew Sullivan is trying to move himself backward, to re-create some kind of fifties life for himself, some restraints to chafe under, some moral imperative to defend, when it was possible not to cut your conscience to fit today's fashions. |
 | | Sullivan, it sometimes seems, gets into the straitjacket just to fight it -- as a gay person in Washington, as a conservative at The New Republic, as a Catholic in a leather bar. |
| www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/4419 (1139 words) |
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