This ought to be a great read. I wonder if he talks about democrat's supply-side treatment of labor markets? Doesn't sound like it.
Posted by Jay at January 6, 2008 08:16 AMa guy who writes for TNR can't spell manichaean?
Posted by julia at January 6, 2008 10:07 AMI'll always hate him for the article he wrote on "bush hatred" reducing the liberal/progressive anger over bush's policies to mere childish tantrums.
aimai
Posted by aimai at January 6, 2008 10:08 AMThis line:
“Liberal blogs exhibit classic paranoid and sectarian tendencies—thinking in Manichean terms, speaking in coded phrases understood by fellow believers, and excommunicating ideological dissidents.”
Is absolutely true. Go to Daily Kos and post a dissenting opinion and you will get called names then disallowed to post. Post a dissenting opinion here and you get the name calling treatment with no repsonse to the dissent.
And Julia...go to dictionary.com and look up Manichean. You will discover that either the spelling used by Chait or your version are acceptable.
Posted by manapp99 at January 6, 2008 10:28 AMEh. It's a variant, but it's not how the root word is spelled.
WADR, I'm sure it was scarring for Mr. Chait when the nutroots rejected, er, excommunicated Mr. Lieberman and the end product of a full generation of neoconservative control of his own publication (although he doesn't seem to have considered the fact that there are other ways to be removed from communion than being pushed. Some people jump).
That said, it's kind of telling that he's concerned about the paranoia of the partisans who aren't having journalists put in prison for reporting news they don't want the public to hear or demanding the heads of, well, he and his coworkers for what clearly must have been a huge shadowy plot in the Beauchamp case.
I have no idea what experience you've had at the great orange satan. I do know that if your whole platform is I am superior to the mouthbreathers at the great orange satan, they do it too is hardly a compelling rationale.
Posted by julia at January 6, 2008 12:19 PM