Everyone and their blogging dog have linked to this Walter Russell Mead essay on “The Progressive Crisis”, mainly because it’s a really good essay, at least until the last few paragraphs. (It is, in turn, partially a critique of Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg’s piece on the puzzle of just why voters don’t think liberal policies … Continue reading 85% of a Lucid Essay, or Why Walter Russell Mead Should Have Quit While He Was Ahead