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The limits of “openness”

October 30, 2007 - 6:21 am - by Roger Kimball
bartleby
2007-10-31 05:26:47

Welcome to PM! I have enjoyed many of your books, TNC, and Armavirumque, and I am delighted to find you here. I hope you will post frequently.

“Openness”, to to anyone paying attention, has been stripped of its plain meaning, and is now a rhetorical straight jacket. It is one thing to read about the theoretical antinomies of liberal democracy; it is quite another to find oneself witnessing them in “real time.”