Fuel for Answerman's fire...
Written by: Beck
Quoth Jonah Goldberg in his
most recent G-File posting on NRO, commention on some recent words from old-school Liberal Alan Wolfe:
So here's my theory about Wolfe (for more on my views about him, click here): He's an old, crotchety, and brilliant liberal who has to walk among academics and journalists who call themselves liberals but really aren't. Much like Clinton Rossiter was in his day, Alan Wolfe is a real liberal — the good kind — but he's been left behind by the times. He should have switched to neoconservatism along with the Huntingtons, Thernstroms, Kristols, and Lipsets, years ago. Instead he decided to stick around his old haunts. Perhaps it is because he loathes the label "conservative" so much he just couldn't put it on. Maybe it's because he wants to fight the good fight for the word "liberal" from behind enemy lines. Whatever. The fact remains that he hangs with the insane-clown posse of the academic Left every day. He writes for partisan-liberal journals (though his book reviews in The New Republic are still among my favorite things to read). So, every now and then he needs to wallop the "other side" — i.e., conservatives — to maintain his bona fides.
Have at it Answerman.