By Patrick Appel
Hilzoy wants Ayers to go away:
Ayers may think that there's still a debate about the Weather Underground's effectiveness. And he might also think that he "acted appropriately in the context of those times." To me, though, he's just a shallow rich kid who took himself and his revolutionary rhetoric much too seriously, helped inspire people to do things that got them killed, and helped to discredit the anti-war movement and the left as a whole.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/12/incompetence-is-no-defense/207805/
