> "Arthur Schlesinger? Paul Krugman? A little further left, Naomi Klein?"
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> It seems that online lib bigs enjoy larger sway. I mean, how does Arthur
> Schlesinger hold up celeb-wise to Greenwald, Yglesias, Perlstein, Klein?
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> Dennis
I don't think those are really the proper analogues Friedman, Hayek, Burke, Oakenshott, &c. They're pundits, and certainly have more intellectual chops than their equivalents across the aisle, but they're not really purveyors of doctrine. Also: not dead. Dewey would be an analog if modern liberals referenced him as often as conservatives do Burke, I think.
Maybe conservatives are willing to quote dead conservative academics because there are simply less high-calibre conservative academics in general? This is a terribly patronizing theory, but...