Okay, shows what I know, I always thought "Slatepitch" was a term of derision for a type of glib, contrarian journalism (a type of writing that was Slate at its worst, not its best). Turns out some people aspire to Slatepitchery.
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Slatepitch allowed elite college educated whites to present themselves as edgy freethinkers while offering substantive policies that were pro-status quo. To be conservative in fact but in style. The more polarized politics of post 2008 have rendered this moot.
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Fundamentally Libertarian rich kids
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They weren't that culturally liberal. Hence Saletan's constant harping on abortion and all of Mickey Kaus.
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Nope. The Kinsley era TNR was notable for its hawkish foreign policy views-pushed by Martin Peretz (views Kinsley did not share and opposed in print). Supply side economics was ridiculed, not supported.
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Kinsley said he was a Thatcherite. His objections to Reagan was the deficits, not the strangulation of the welfare state.
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