I admire champions of lost causes: the beautiful losers, to borrow the title of an early Leonard Cohen opus, by far his best. The Japanese, apparently, have great respect for them; the Japanologist Ivan Morris wrote a whole book about it. Yet the kamikaze pilots don't entirely qualify"any more than do Muslim suicide bombers--because their sacrifice did not entail what they thought of as a lost cause.My feeling for lo…
SOURCE: John Simon at 04:39PM on March 18, 2014