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<span class="date-display-single">Mon, 06/08/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3809">Richard Seymour</a></span></div><p>The left lost United States' writer Alexander Cockburn, one of its most powerful essayists and diarists, on July 21. He was an ironist who, unlike Christopher Hitchens, did not tend to confuse irony with supercilious chauvinism and leaden sarcasm (see <em>The Long Short War</em> for examples of these traits).</p>
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