Opinion: Top 10: Reasons to disbelieve
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What were people in the mood for last week? Not bromides about good government, public service or political commitment, that’s for sure. P.J. O’Rourke’s chainsaw tour of liberal platitudes brought in more than four times the traffic of the next-most-popular item — which was itself another bit of PC iconoclasm: Gregory Rodriguez’ skeptical piece on the value of ‘dialogue.’ Is it time for the candidates to do something about all this cynicism? I hope not, and I thank you for reading Opinion L.A.
1. Fairness, idealism and other atrocities, by P.J. O’Rourke 2. Dialogue isn’t the last word, by Gregory Rodriguez3. Hillary’s ‘right’ isn’t the right thing, Rosa Brooks 4. Does your brain have a mind of its own? by Gary Marcus 5. Give voters a clue, by Jonah Goldberg6. Government in secret, by Russ Feingold 7. Dust-Up: The new scarcity, by Gregory Clark and Gary Gardner8. California wine? Down the drain, by Alice Feiring 9. Grand Old Party animal, by Joel Stein 10. China’s next-generation nationalists, by Joshua Kurlantzick