Monday Morning Links
— Over at The Daily Dish I wrote a review of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.
— Is this exceptionally reported and well written New York Times Magazine story worth $400,000?
— I’ve been catching up on Reihan’s policy blog, and I thought this post was quite good.
— I miss Jim Manzi posts! Luckily he’s guest blogging at The Daily Dish this week, and he recently gave an interview to The Economist.
With that I’m off to a Southern California lake, where I’ll be vacationing with my family, Internet access uncertain. Locals will be relieved to know that my destination is not The Salton Sea.
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As my daughter would say, “That’s random!!”
Seriously, Conor, is this question as detached from reality as it seems—or are you pressing once again for taxpayer-funded journalism? More and more, you are resembling the Columbia j-school stereotype.
The article seems promising—and I plan to read it—but the last two sentences seem rather anti-climactic: loss of trust between survivors of disaster is worse than the disaster? Can you explain how that’s meaningful or helpful in any way?
— jd · Aug 31, 02:01 PM · #
I haven’t read Levin’s book, but from how you describe his critique of statism, I wouldn’t assume he beleives all the people who voted for Obama are necessarily statists. If he stated this explicitly, then you are correct – that’s too big of a blanket — however, if he’s saying the progressives now in influential government positions are moving the country further left, motivated by a statist mindset, then I’d say he’s on the “mark” (pun intended). You are right, if Levin has reduced the argument to conservative vs statist — it’s more like a battle between anti-statists and statists. Statists are on both the left and right. There’s really no reason to go to all the trouble of building a strawman — the words and actions of progressives are all that’s needed to establish the statist mentality. I’ve recently begun using the term “state marketism” rather than “statism”.
— mike farmer · Aug 31, 05:56 PM · #
Levin drove me nuts with his anti-McCain tirades during the last presidential campaign, screaming at his own listeners who dared to support the senator. But I tried to read his book, hoping I might agree with the substance.
I did, for about two pages. That’s when Levin writes that he’s not going to attack other conservatives … right before he calls out David Brooks and Michael Gerson (two writers I admire) as a “neo Statists.”
And that was that. Back to the library went my copy.
— Christian H. · Aug 31, 07:14 PM · #
That is a really good NYT article — but jd is right, then ending is quite obviously soft-pedaled.
The narrative of the article seems to indicate that at least Cook, Mulderick, and Thiele, and probably Pou as well, are murderers. Cook and Thiele come off the worst, but perhaps only because they are the ones most willing to be honest about what they did.
Perhaps it would be libel for the article to come out and say as much, and that’s the reason for the weak ending. But it definitely conveys the idea that what happened was murder, and the murderers were allowed to go free.
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Conor, the sad homunculus, wanting so much to exert a BSD but losing every pissing contest with Levin. This penis envy has got to stop.
Why even pretend you can fairly review the guy’s book? Pathetic loser type act. Big FAIL.
Nor does he know any liberal statists. It’s all straw men to him. Obama isn’t really what he is. FDR wasn’t what he was nor Wilson nor LBJ nor McGovern nor Hillary Clinton nor all the dumb lefties and liberals who want universal health care, universal welfare, universal education (college), affordable housing, affordable everything and every increasing wages and higher taxes and no more damn rich people.
Yeah, I know liberals are just nice people who mean well and are nice. Really nice. Sincere, even.
What’s the current tax rate? How many days does it take to pay for the cost of all government and regulations? Something like 222 days? No, it can’t be statism that causes this thievery and ruination of liberty because all the liberals we know are nice, and hey, they don’t really like taxes much either.
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