Speaking as a pretty far to the left academic, with graduate degrees from that bastion of postcolonialism Columbia U, I have to say that the kind of academic deLong and Kleiman describe seems to me to be a fiction of the right’s imagination–though t…

It’s a little early to nominate entries for Best Blog Post of 2004, I suppose, but I think it will be hard to beat Mark Kleiman’s list of five epistemic principles for thinking about politics: Being aware of your own…

Is it okay if I’m universally intolerant of people who don’t share my point-of-view, or am I supposed to be nice to everyone? I agree that the stance he (and Brad Delong) target is untenable, but what’s the preferred solution…