Matthew Yglesias Watches the Downward Spiral of "The New Republic" Continue
He writes:
The Sweet Taste of Straw: Here's a good one. Leon Wieseltier takes on liberals who've been misinterpreting Reinhold Niebuhr and manages to offer quotations from zero liberals who actually adhere to the misinterpretation that's alleged at hand. Names of said liberals? No.
I mean, seriously, is there anybody out there who thinks that the problem with Bush's foreign policy is that he has a bad domestic policy? Wieseltier's quite right to term that an odd point of view to take up, and not a very sound reading of Neibuhr, but it's such an odd point of view that nobody adheres to it...
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