It appears that I'm not the only one who thinks Jonah Goldberg is an idiot. Isaiah Berlin has my back (from Andrew Sullivan ):"'Evil is rarely defeated by people who are unsure they are right,'{2009 Update: Pic from here.}
- Jonah Goldberg, on conservatism of doubt.
'To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions’, said an admirable writer of our time, ‘and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.'
- Isaiah Berlin, 'Two Concepts of Liberty.'"

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