--- Jeet Heer <jeet at sturdynet.com> wrote:
>
> mike larkin wrote:
>
>
> > The Times would have been better off with Richard
> > Brookhiser or Dorothy Rabinowitz. This guy's an
> > embarrassment.
> >
>
> Yeah, the Oakeshott column was terrible -- it
> managed to be pretentious and
> sophomoric at the same time. Even worse for Brooks
> side, it revealed a
> gaping contradiction in contemporary right-wing
> thinking: on the way hand,
> conservatives pose as hard-headed skeptics who have
> little faith in the
> ability of government to solve problems
> (unintentional consequenences,
> epistimologicaly modesty etc); on the other hand,
> they have extravagant
> schemes for re-making other cultures (bringing
> democracy to the heart of the
> Middle East, etc.). Well, you can believe in one, or
> you can believe in the
> other. To believe in both, and to try to square out
> the difference in an
> op-ed column, is nutty.
>
>
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