Friday, November 18, 2005

Kinsley on Abortion Politics

On Slate today, Michael Kinsley has this piece, which eloquently summarizes why the left is insincere about wanting to protect Supreme Court precedents as a rule, why the right is insincere about not wanting to use abortion as a litmus test for judges, and how we don't really talk about complex issues in this country -- we set up a kind of performance-art system in which we talk at length about how and why we're not talking about them.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home