Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Illiterate Politics.

Illiterate Politics. By KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
Excerpt: Progressives have invested a great deal of effort cultivating various occult theories of conservatism. It is important to try to engage the arguments of those with different political views on their own terms, which requires taking the time to understand those arguments and their intellectual bases. This is one of the reasons (besides reading pleasure) that Jonah Goldberg’s books are so valuable: He probably has done more to illuminate the intellectual origins of progressivism than any progressive writer working today. It is poetic — and it is illustrative of the intellectual flabbiness of contemporary progressivism, with its supra-ideological pretense — that the tendency running through Woodrow Wilson and “war socialism” to the Affordable Care Act and the Green New Deal has been revived as a subject of public interest mainly by Jonah’s books and Glenn Beck’s television programs.

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