The virtues of clarity

Ordinarily, the experience of reading Leon Wieseltier’s turgid prose is akin to masturbating in warm bathwater. Today, however, I came upon a surprisingly on-the-nose expression of his political preferences, which included this jaw-dropping (for me) line:

I want universal health care and I want an interventionist foreign policy.

Stunning! It’s so rare that I see everything I hope to protect my country from so clearly arrayed in front of me, that I was almost grateful.