October 18, 2009

Seriously Studying the Right

An interesting thing happened when the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements opened in March 2009 at the University of California at Berkeley: E-mail messages poured in from people and institutions across the spectrum of American politics, and in many cases people projected their own assumptions about our political biases.

In short order, the center adjusted to being a blank slate for others' hopes, fears, and fantasies. Even so, Mark Lilla's meditation "Taking the

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