China Syndrome Liberalism
The Goldberg File By Jonah Goldberg January 30, 2015 Dear Reader (unless you're Suge Knight, who apparently has bigger problems), So Jonathan Chait stirred up a lot of sturm und drang this week when he complained about political correctness on the left. I read somewhere that he says it's the most debated thing he's ever written. That's probably right, at least on the left, which has gotten its cis-normative panties in a bunch about it. I am not always a fan of "protest too much" arguments. Sometimes people protest too much because an accusation is so wrong, not because it strikes so close to home. If I publicly call you an incestuous pedophile or the founder of a Michael Bolton fan club and you make a big stink about it, maybe it's because I hit a nerve, but more likely it's because it's not true. But this isn't one of those cases, I don't think. Chait scores some direct hits. Lefties can q...
