In the age of Obama, we’re going to have to get used to the new zeitgeist in Washington, and in the media: the perpetual high moral dudgeon of contemporary liberalism. While the Bush administration had its own style of moralizing — the rhetoric of “liberation,” the idea that we were doing the people of Iraq a favor by invading and occupying their country — the Obama crowd is much more sophisticated than that, and, simultaneously, more vulgar. On the one hand, they are all up in arms about torture, and the lawless treatment of the Guantanamo inmates, and on the … Continue reading Perpetual High Moral Dudgeon