Are Appeals to Etymology Regressive?
On Leon Wieseltier, Radical Liberalism, and the Politics of Home
Read this stirring and compelling defense of liberalism by Leon Wieseltier. It’s a masterpiece of style and a heartfelt polemic. The author celebrates the co-existence of universalism and particularism, telling us that any one-sided choice between them is “phony.”
At one point, Wieseltier attacks the Russian reactionary thinker Aleksandr Dugin for his po…
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