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Keith Windschuttle and the Khmer Rouge.(works)

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| June 01, 2006 | Manne, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE writes in the April 2006 Quadrant that I am "the most brazen" of all "the inventors" of his past. The claim rests on one sentence I wrote in the introduction to Whitewash, republished in the collection of my essays Left Right Left. In the introduction I informed readers that Windschuttle was formerly an "obscure, retired Sydney academic", who had once been "an ultra-radical leftist", but who had travelled very rapidly, during the nineties, to the right. The offending sentence followed: "By the late 1990s, Windschuttle's journey from Pol Pot enthusiast to apologist for the British Empire was complete."

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