Commenting on the new blog Left2Right (see below), Prestopundit has an assignment for progressive intellectuals trying to understand the conservative mind: read some Hayek.
If leftist and independent academics want to engage non-leftists, they might consider engaging the ideas that non-leftists take seriously. It’s hard to find a conservative who isn’t massively influenced by the writings of Friedrich Hayek.
Pretty good advice. At the same time, it’s not entirely clear that the goal of Left2Right is to engage conservative or libertarian ideas. Based on the blog’s mission statement, my sense is that the goal is to understand why so many people voted for Bush, and to use those insights to help the next Democratic candidate win Ohio and Florida in 2008.
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