No thanks. I glanced at the article and saw that Beinart's patron saint is Reinhold Niebuhr -- article photo caption: "Reinhold Niebuhr: A liberal for the ages. Neibuhr was a theologian and an intellectual hero to postwar Democrats" -- so I promptly concluded the article was a crock. Neibuhr is a prime example of the liberal as Jekyll & Hyde -- a rampaging anticommunist one minute, a hand-wringing critic of the consumerist society the next. Life's too short to spend any of it contemplating the mare's nest of Niebuhr's thinking.
>... I'm not endorsing Beinart's views. I think of his as an
>effort to articulate a better, lasting, more workable, more stable
>approach for U.S. capitalism to retain its international hegemony.
No doubt. I see Beinart's piece now ranks #4 on the NY Times "most-emailed" list. It doesn't need any more attention than it's getting already.
Carl