3/6/2005
Hack Watch Part 1: Jonah Goldberg
Mr. Specious Infotainment on Friday:
Having read quite a bit about pre-WWII liberalism, I know that many liberals and progressives used to explicitly endorse the notion that the ends can justify the means and the spirit of ends-justifying-the-means suffuses vast areas of liberal public policy and, often, conservative foreign policy.And then today:
Anyway, does anyone know about an essay or book specificly on this concept and the arguments which swirl around it?
I have to say this was the most disappointing result of a bleg to date. Except for some perfectly interesting and thoughtful personal observations on what the whole ends versus means thing means to some readers, nobody's pointed me to anything worth reading (save an old essay from WFB and exhortation to read through John Courtney Murray "writings").First off, if he's read so much on the subject, why doesn't he use his vast knowledge of liberal philosophy? Why does he have to ask his readers to do the work for him? Why is he so doughy?
Second, he wasn't asking about articles on whether the ends justify the means. He was making a specific charge that this was an essential part of liberal philosophy.
What a shithead.
File under: hack.
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