pace Allen

I watched the health-care "Town halls" last night on C-Span. Well, for as long as I could stomach it.

Fuck it. Danielle Allen's ideas are idiotic. These are not people with legitimate fears about the health-care plan. They are whack-jobs. The challenge is to find the people with legitimate concerns and debate them, while not allowing the whack jobs to dominate the discourse. But then Professor Allen's last book wasn't about tuning out whack jobs and actually governing... It was about political dialogue in the context of attic political theory.

I'm all for dialogue, even with people you don't want to dialogue with and there are people who have legitimate concerns... Unfortunately, you don't see a lot of them referred to in the current debates.