Exactly so. I'd push the point a bit harder and say calls like this are not about intellectual diversity but about creating an elite united front of liberals & conservatives to fend off supposed extremists.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @zachdcarter
There's a swath of contemporary elite liberalism that's like this and I find it both extremely stultifying and weirdly, unselfconsciously illberal
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Replying to @zackbeauchamp @zachdcarter
This was literally the project created by Richard Hofstadter and Lionel Trilling in the late 1940s. I'll have more on this shortly.
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