Test bloggingheads post

I think I got the super-secret Byzantine code figured out that lets me embed a bit of a Bloggingheads debate. Like so:

EDIT: Ah, crap. WordPress won’t let me do the fancy embed thing. Oh well, here’s a link to the debate clip I wanted to show you. (It’s about 9 minutes long.)

This is Jonah Goldberg debating with Will Wilkinson about his new book “Liberal Fascism”. Remember all that nice stuff I said about the debate between Glenn Loury and John McWhorter? This debate kinda makes me feel the opposite. Will tries really hard to be neutral about Jonah’s book, and give him a fair hearing, but this clip of the debate is where Jonah really lets loose his id.

For the beginning hour of the interview, Will does an OK job of walking through the early parts of Jonah’s argument — I feel like I learned some interesting things about the history of the progressive movement, and I definitely have some things to ponder about President Wilson (America’s first dictator, says Jonah). But Will could have been a lot harsher on him as the interview wrapped up… putting a smiley-face Hitler on the cover and coyly dancing around the notion that modern liberal policies are a slippery slope towards death camps? It’s just appalling.

I need to watch this clip a few more times before fully commenting on it, but there’s a lot to be mortified by here.