Since I am not a liberal by any current definition, I cannot say whether Geoffrey Stone’s definition of liberal in his recent Commentary piece is correct.
I can say without question that some of Stone’s definitions have nothing to do with the left in the United States today.
The left does not tolerate any dissent whatsoever.
One who dares to disagree with the left’s agenda is shouted down and reviled.
Witness the speech codes on most college campuses.
Anyone who dares to describe affirmative action for what it is–thinly disguised racial quotas–is immediately denounced as a racist.
The left regards the United States as evil and hence unworthy of defense, which is why the left opposes the war on terror.
If the cases don’t support the left’s view of constitutional law, people like Stone simply pretend they don’t exist.
The defining characteristic of the left these days is its intellectual dishonesty, nowhere more clearly evidenced than in Stone’s definitions.
