Ann Jefferson on Paul de Man--the Most Contemptible article in TLS since when?

I can't stop looking at Ann Jefferson's worshipful exoneration of Paul de Man and her relentless attack on Evelyn Barish's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PAUL DE MAN.

You know why poor blighted de Man (his "early life was blighted by unhappy family circumstances") was absolutely forced to write anti-Semitic articles for LE SOIR? You don't?

Oh, Ann Jefferson will tell you: "Financial necessity was therefore the most likely motive for his contributions to the Belgian daily Le Soir, under its new collaborationist editorship."

I knew there was a good reason!