The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

[Carl Remick]

>>... conservative "thinking" is never more
>>than sophistry, served up by cartoonish figures like, say, Myron Magnet.
>>(If you want a good laugh, see:
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29108-2001Apr2.html)
>>
>>Carl
>
>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>
>It was me who posted the comment about the right on the higfh intellectual
>ground. And I stand by it. They moved from the Stupid Party to the party
>bristling with vigorous ideas, all the way from high justificatory theory
>(Buchanan, Becker, Posner, Epstein, Nozick, etc.) to middle-range policy
>proposals of the sort cranked out by think tanks, to low brow pundits. The
>right is not talking about a crisis of ideology, bemonaing its ability to
>put its program into effect, or beating its breast. It has taken over both
>political parties; it has enlisted a good chunk of what is left of the left
>in support of the less awful of the two, and it is savagely looting the
>natoion and the world with the other political party in command of all 
>three
>branches of government, happy as a  pig in clover, and feeling quite
>justified and intelligent. So what's to laugh at? --jks

As I said, Myron Magnet, who seems to be heir to Herman Kahn as a smug, 
self-parodying figure of capitalist bloat.

Carl
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