It's funny, I went through a bit of a libertarian phase around college as well, but am now comfortably in the realm of soc-dem thought. (Klein, Yglesias, Medlock, Wilkinson, Roberts, Noahpinion, etc.) It's a bit of an inversion of the old saw (which I've heard attributed to Churchill, but who knows if that's accurate) about how if you weren't a socialist at 20 you have no heart, but if you're still a socialist at 40 you have no head.
It's funny, I went through a bit of a libertarian phase around college as well, but am now comfortably in the realm of soc-dem thought. (Klein, Yglesias, Medlock, Wilkinson, Roberts, Noahpinion, etc.) It's a bit of an inversion of the old saw (which I've heard attributed to Churchill, but who knows if that's accurate) about how if you weren't a socialist at 20 you have no heart, but if you're still a socialist at 40 you have no head.
In which DRVolts tries to stay optimistic about political nihilism...
Before I gave my NYT subscription money to David and Wonkette, I read Wilkinson there. He's blindingly smart. I loved the hell out of this.