You know you've arrived when you get dissed in the New Yorker in a Critic-At-Large discussion. You'll be hearing more about this, and about Marco Flavio's excellent Cook Here and Now group in the next couple of weeks.

Much more stimulating, and surprising, was a splendid conversation I had with Megan McArdle who writes a fine blog over at The Atlantic Monthly.

The good people at BloggingHeads.tv matched us up because they thought it'd be fun to pit a lefty-global-justice type against a libertarian vegan. Sparks certainly flew, but in a very good natured way.

Better, there were some important points of similarity in our positions. As someone who still thinks that one of the founding texts of libertarianism, Anarchy, State and Utopia is a *very* good read, this shouldn't have come as a big surprise, but that's because the political philosophy of libertarianism has been tarred by people whom Megan refers to, correctly in my view, as wingnuts. ... read more »

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Posted on 13 May, 2008 - 17:30