Cowley embodied the bien-pensant radicalism of the thirties

 In the 1930s, mainstream publishing, journalism, and academia were dominated not by Trotskyists or independent leftists like Wilson or Dwight Macdonald but by adherents of the Popular Front, for whom loyalty to the Soviet Union was also loyalty to progress and freedom.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/whats-left-of-malcolm-cowley

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