Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, November 13, 2008


Even a TNR contributor who's cleverly blurbed on the home page as thinking partisanship is a good thing may not be that gung-ho:

And yet we must take care not to be too partisan about partisanship. It ought not to be welcome in every aspect of life--certainly not in arenas such as the schools, the churches, and the sciences, where concerns for other values ought to dominate, and under ordinary circumstances completely exclude, the partisan mentality. Yet in a society in which the parties stand for different worldviews that encompass education, religion, and science, maintaining those limits is increasingly difficult. Even in a partisan America, or perhaps especially there, the ethic of partisanship has to include rules for keeping partisanship in its place. [Last graf]

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