Mike Davis' brilliance was that he never fit in

Mike Davis saw things others didn't — or preferred not to — and he wrote about what scared him the most.
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The key to Mike Davis' brilliance: He never fit in Click to view images

Mike Davis, who died Tuesday, was both a towering public intellectual and — crucially — a perpetual outsider and dissident, writes his co-author, Jon Wiener.

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