This is some of your best writing, Matt. Your irony and jokes help the medicine go down...especially when discussing such dispiriting topics as ideological bullying and the widespread demise of free speech, debate, and objective journalism. For instance, this:
“ The American liberalism I knew growing up was inclusive, humble, and democrat…
This is some of your best writing, Matt. Your irony and jokes help the medicine go down...especially when discussing such dispiriting topics as ideological bullying and the widespread demise of free speech, debate, and objective journalism. For instance, this:
“ The American liberalism I knew growing up was inclusive, humble, and democratic. It valued the free exchange of ideas among other things because a central part of the liberal’s identity was skepticism and doubt, most of all about your own correctitude. Truth was not a fixed thing that someone owned, it was at best a fleeting consensus, and in our country everyone, down to the last kook, at least theoretically got a say. We celebrated the fact that in criminal courts, we literally voted to decide the truth of things.”
Those were the days, huh? On behalf of kooks everywhere, I hope we can pull it together and make your last paragraph come true.
This is some of your best writing, Matt. Your irony and jokes help the medicine go down...especially when discussing such dispiriting topics as ideological bullying and the widespread demise of free speech, debate, and objective journalism. For instance, this:
“ The American liberalism I knew growing up was inclusive, humble, and democratic. It valued the free exchange of ideas among other things because a central part of the liberal’s identity was skepticism and doubt, most of all about your own correctitude. Truth was not a fixed thing that someone owned, it was at best a fleeting consensus, and in our country everyone, down to the last kook, at least theoretically got a say. We celebrated the fact that in criminal courts, we literally voted to decide the truth of things.”
Those were the days, huh? On behalf of kooks everywhere, I hope we can pull it together and make your last paragraph come true.