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What's the Matter with Munchkinland?

Jesse Walker | 8.5.2005 10:20 AM

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In The Independent Review, Quentin Taylor tries to rehabilitate the thesis that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an allegory about Populism. Left unaddressed: the amazing synchronicities that unfold if you read the "cross of gold" speech while listening to Dark Side of the Moon.

[Via Karen De Coster.]

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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