Apr 5, 2009
I mean, suppose you read Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias. They’re serious statists, people with whom I seriously disagree. And on many issues, I don’t just disagree with them - I think they’re morally insensitive to the wickedness of coercion and comfortable with incredible concentrations of power in the hands of a few (the state). I think that shows not just confusion but moral defect. But really, they never boil my blood. Ezra’s around my age and is like lots of snarky lefty guys I knew in school. I feel like I “get” his “snark + analysis” thing and for fun I usually imagine him in his DC flat cooking with a gaggle of not-that-hot liberal girls wearing “I only sleep with Democrats” buttons, regaling them with stories about meeting powerful lefty politicians before he beds them simultaneously and in fast-forward, Clockwork Orange Style. It always amuses me.—contractualistweightloss
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