Anti-Climacus

NOTE TO DAVID:

Re: your quote of Richard Just. I know they don't teach you basic reading skills in your science and math classes (who needs to read?), but he was speaking sarcastically. Granted, that would require reading in context, another skill they seem to have neglected to teach you. And if you understood the first thing about the Neoliberal movement (which has, as one of it's starting points, Michael Walzer's "Can There Be a Decent Left" from Dissent), you'd understand that there's a huge difference between Left and Right justifications for war in Iraq. Of course, you also make the mistake of assuming that the Democratic Party supervenes on the Left. But if, instead of complaining that you can't see anything worthwhile going on within the Left, you took time to read Dissent, The New Republic, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, anything from the Brookings Institution, Arthur Schelsinger's The Coming of the New Deal, Hubert Humphrey's The Education of a Public Man, or any one of hundreds of other sources that articulate substantial and meaningful Left positions, you'd already know that.