Against conservatives. Here in the U.S. Fortunately, this admonition wasn’t uttered by some rightwinger, whose substandard morality has with certainty been gauged by his political inclinations — and was instead uttered by a progressive professor, whose resolute goodness cannot be questioned, thanks to his willingness to identify as a progressive, and to show fidelity to the progressive belief structure. — The upshot being, DU creative writing Professor Brian Kiteley doesn’t

This is the tack Romney’s going to take — to accept fully the left’s narrative frame about a recovering economy and then work to attack it along its periphery with complaints that it took a longer time than it had to? Really? Really? Because isn’t that what Obama himself is saying — that the economy was worse off than he believed initially, and that therefore the recovery, now finally gaining

Liberty is not a winning issue. Run from it! Pragmatism. (h/t JD)

Performed rather perfectly by Stanley Fish, who — because he has spent an academic career immersed in the insular logic of the linguistic turn — is able to comfortably slide into a description of benevolent “liberal” tyranny that he counsels his fellow travelers (satirically?) to embrace. To which I answer, well, at least he’s honest about what it is progressives are doing. Fish: If we think about the Rush Limbaugh