The Ineducable Left

First Things ^ | February 25, 2001 | Brian C. Anderson

[hellinahandcart]

Yikes, 'great minds' and all that...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

midge

member since January 3rd, 2001

I see you have been a sleeper for some time, at least in this incarnation. But how is it that you have never bookmarked anything in a year's time?

[EternalHope]

Thanks for a great post.

Harvard, the New York Times, and the totalitarian liberals they nurture. Barbarians.

Radical Islam is not the only enemy of civilization.

[Blood of Tyrants]

These nitwits make the same mistake every other communist idiot out there makes. They believe that people will keep being good little productives while tens of millions of deadbeats abuse the system. It always fails because it doesn't take long to realize that you get the same benefits whether you are the hardest, most productive worker or the worst slacker.

Communism will never be anything but slavery with fewer masters as the only way to keep the people working is to force them.

[Orual]

Yikes, 'great minds' and all that...

They neglected to add us to their list.

[aculeus]

Harvard, the New York Times, and the totalitarian liberals they nurture. Barbarians.

Charley Rose, who should know better, interviewed the American co-author.

[wotan]

Who wants to see any more of that pallid and parasitic European ruling class that led directly from the ancien régime to nationalism, from populism to fascism, and now pushes for a generalized neoliberalism?

Well, they got one thing right.

[beckett]

Anderson makes some great points and scores some direct hits on the addled minds of the Left, especially when he can show us how insane the language of Hardt and Negri sounds in light of 9/11.

I am more in Sullivan's camp than Anderson's, I think. I see some reason for optimism, some reason to believe that 9/11 dealt a devastating blow to doctrinaire Leftism, perhaps even a mortal blow.