OK, I read the article. It’s clear he does not like Friedman. I have no use for Friedman’s attitudes either.
I have no use for Rolling Stones either. Lefties are Lefties, same, whether they are Globalist Lefties or Dumb Lib Lefties.
Fully respect your “uses” and “no uses.” Everything you say is true.
However, even people and institutions we dislike are capable of saying and writing the truths we admire. Dissing Friedman’s book is something I admire (I reviewed the Flat Earth book for the magazine I edited and found it horribly biased and illogical). Next week RS will print something biased and illogical, but that won’t diminish the respect I have for this piece that I agree with.
Often enough, people and institutions we do admire will say and write something we don’t agree with. I won’t be abandoning them in total. Surely, you will not either. Life is so seldom black and white. My opinion is we shouldn’t isolate ourselves in the World Ideal, a lonely place where nobody can ever live up to our unrealistic expectations.
Rather, we should admire the random, messy, colorful world we live in, sticking to our principles to the extent we can chide our friends when they err (by our standards) and credit our enemies when they happen upon a moment of truth (by our standards).
If we were seeking a perfect candidate in the last election, we would not have bothered to vote. PE Trump will, at moments exceed our expectations. At other times, he will fall short of our hopes. The same is true of our enemies, except for those rarest of satanic jerks.
Soften up, Fossil. RS just had a stopped-clock moment. Enjoy it.