"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The continuing radicalization of the Left
Whatever happened to American liberalism and its vaunted support for free speech? Susan Goldberg traces the totalitarian temptation in its contemporary context.
Yes that seems to be pretty much the NeoCon case for Classical Liberal activism. I concede it may well be where the world is heading eventually, but I'm a pessimistic PaleoCon these days, in the British (Canadian?) tradition where we are called Tories. I'm still not sure what USA PaleoCons want as the US seems to me founded on the Classical Liberalism Goldberg describes and I don't see what a PaleoCon can do about it.
Outside Canada I don't think you can be an American Tory. David Warren makes the Tory case: http://www.davidwarrenonline.com
Good article, well worth thinking over.
ReplyDeleteYes that seems to be pretty much the NeoCon case for Classical Liberal activism. I concede it may well be where the world is heading eventually, but I'm a pessimistic PaleoCon these days, in the British (Canadian?) tradition where we are called Tories. I'm still not sure what USA PaleoCons want as the US seems to me founded on the Classical Liberalism Goldberg describes and I don't see what a PaleoCon can do about it.
ReplyDeleteOutside Canada I don't think you can be an American Tory. David Warren makes the Tory case:
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com