Dr. Sally Gelardin, EdD
Where The Atlantic's argument favoring Kevin Williamson's appointment to the
magazine's writing staff seems to break down is in its failure to distinguish
between conservatism and right-wing zealotry.
To me, conservatism promites economic and social policy that emphasizes
individual responsibility, small government, low taxation and public spending,
and minimal regulation. It is right wing zealotry,... Show more
Dr. Sally Gelardin, EdD
Where The Atlantic's argument favoring Kevin Williamson's appointment to the
magazine's writing staff seems to break down is in its failure to distinguish
between conservatism and right-wing zealotry.
To me, conservatism promites economic and social policy that emphasizes
individual responsibility, small government, low taxation and public spending,
and minimal regulation. It is right wing zealotry, however, that traffics in
the ""crude stereotypes"" mentioned by Michelle Goldberg.
The ""space where conservative and progressive ideas [legitimately] clash""
has no room, for example, for the virulent misogyny of the extreme-right or
the nihiistic anti-Semitism of the extreme left. I doubt that Rush Limbaugh
would ever be hired to write for The Atlantic
I admit to having read Williamson only very occasionally. If he truly
advocates for the death penalty to be imposed upon women exercising their
constitutional right to control their own bodies, then he falls outside the
spectrum of civil discourse that should define what any reputable journal of
ideas is willing to publish.
The continuum of political ideology can better be described as a loop where
the extremes at both ends meet at a point where they are virtually and
hatefully indistinguishable. This is a point where nothing is on-offer to
refine anybody's political reflection.
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