OK, I subscribed to Linker too - hopefully the longer form will work better for him than The Week. He's not just apologized for his theocon ways, but actually done a fair amount of reflection on *why* he had those ways in the first place (AFAIK his old First Things content is still online - it makes, err, interesting reading), which I g…
OK, I subscribed to Linker too - hopefully the longer form will work better for him than The Week. He's not just apologized for his theocon ways, but actually done a fair amount of reflection on *why* he had those ways in the first place (AFAIK his old First Things content is still online - it makes, err, interesting reading), which I guess makes him kind of a theocon Whittaker Chambers? Except that, so far at least, Linker has stopped in the political middle. The closest American analogy I can think of from far left to approximate middle would be Max Shachtman.
OK, I subscribed to Linker too - hopefully the longer form will work better for him than The Week. He's not just apologized for his theocon ways, but actually done a fair amount of reflection on *why* he had those ways in the first place (AFAIK his old First Things content is still online - it makes, err, interesting reading), which I guess makes him kind of a theocon Whittaker Chambers? Except that, so far at least, Linker has stopped in the political middle. The closest American analogy I can think of from far left to approximate middle would be Max Shachtman.