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Monday, March 16, 2009

Lileks Takes On the Communitarians

Lileks cuts loose on the cheap moralistic posturing of lefties and in the process demolishes Amitai Etzioni [nee Werner Falk] one of the most pretentious of the communitarian theorists, exposing the fascist core of his social agenda. Etzioni's program seems to boil down to:

What’s the point of freedom if people waste it on themselves?

Nobody does this sort of thing better than Lileks. Read it here.