Andrew Sullivan has a thought-provoking essay in New York Magazine about how we’re killing off liberal democracy and not just in Poland or Hungary or the United States either. This elite condescension toward challenges to their power stems, philosopher John Gray recently argued, from a fundamental and demonstrably false assumption that
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman highlights why inequality is indeed an issue which demands action – both for its own sake, and for its impact on other goals such as economic sustainability. And Bill Moyers discusses the difference between a government responsive to its people and
Continue readingOminous prediction from Andrew Sullivan re: Netanyahu vs. Obama
I guess it depends on what Andrew means by “get rid of Obama soon”. But I think we know exactly what he means. Shudder. Here’s a prediction. Netanyahu, in league and concert with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, will make his move to get rid of Obama soon. And he will
Continue readingAndrew Sullivan drives the wahmbulance to Pat Buchanan’s doorstep.
I normally agree and in fact admire much of what Andrew Sullivan writes. Unlike phony conservative opportunists like David Frum, Sullivan approaches his words with a conviction not influenced by the winds of caprice. However, he is still a conservative and is prone to indulging in the last refuge of a conservative
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