In the end, Compact adds up to a strong argument for the very thing it aims to indict. EricLevitz writes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Among the small minority of Americans who opine about politics for a living, there are several bespoke ideological camps that despise liberals more than each other.
That wouldn’t be a problem if Compact merely aspired to curate debate among its rainbow coalition of ideological misfits. But it has higher aims. “Every new magazine should be an intimation of a possible future,” the founders declare in a note to readers. “Our editorial choices are shaped by our desire for a strong social-democratic state that defends community — local and national, familial and religious — against a libertine left and a libertarian right.
That Gutentag’s argument rests less on careful reasoning than paranoid intuitions may be best conveyed by her reflection on the dysfunctions of the U.S. housing market: Other pieces betray a similar tendency to start with a conclusion and then stick by it, irrespective of evidence. Sohrab Ahmari declares that the crisis in Ukraine has revealed that “liberal hawks are flying high once more, talons extended for the hunt.” He proceeds to ponder how liberal interventionism managed to rehabilitate itself after the past decades’ many failed regime-change wars. The fact that America’s sitting president withdrew all U.S.
For Aponte, a society with genuine freedom of speech would apparently be one where the moral intuitions of powerful classes exert no insidious influence on popular standards of decorum. To the extent that this goal is realizable, it would seem to require the abolition of class. And then, even under perfect communism, hierarchies of moral authority might still persist.
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