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Ross Douthat hasn’t got much good to say about the new Liberal blog run by a bunch of left-academics. It is called left2right.
I looked at it when it started, brought it to your attention, but, alas, I’m still waiting for some verve and insight. It’s predictable, boring, and, of course, haughty. Maybe it will get better. For now, it is a soporific.

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i>Egalitarianism cannot survive inspection as a proposal for forcibly maintaining a static pattern, but that is not what liberal egalitarianism was.

Above was lifted from the left2right blog. It may be out of context, but I’m not sure if there was any context to actually lift it from.

Can anyone decipher this? Deciphering this muddy thinking requires a whole seperate blog.

Egalitarianism cannot survive inspection as a proposal for forcibly maintaining a static pattern, but that is not what liberal egalitarianism was.


Above was lifted from the left2right blog. It may be out of context, but I’m not sure if there was any context to actually lift it from.

Can anyone decipher this? Deciphering this muddy thinking requires a whole seperate blog.

Thanks for the advertisement. Readers who care whether Douthat knows what he’s talking about might want to read this
response to his review. But readers should beware that, just as Jabez reports, there are individual sentences on the blog that make no sense when taken out of context.

I haven’t spent any serious time on the blog, but I can personally vouch for David Schmidtz. He’s no left-winger, but is in fact a libertarian who has written extremely cogent philosophical critiques of the welfare state.

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