In Kiev on a junket to promote the Maidan optimists, Leon Wieseltier let slip that he was bummed he never experienced the high-water mark of Cold War liberalism. So much moral clarity there once was, he sighed. Much of the ‘Persuasion’ crowd reminds me of Wieseltier’s pining.
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Yes, there's a lot of LARPing among intellectuals: visible also after 9/11 when Hitchens/Berman/BHL tried to package themselves as the new Orwells and Koestlers of a global war of ideas.
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