Earnest Libs Picking Thousand-Word Nits

Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College. He is of the progressive-intellectual tendency. He runs a wordy blog, where he takes issue with others of the same kidney: Ezra Klein, Susan Faludi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jonathan Chait, and such—earnest liberals picking thousand-word nits over each other’s positions on fine points of policy. Sample blog posts: “That Old Centrist Magic: Jonathan Stein Responds to Jonathan Chait” (1788 words), “The Way We Weren’t: My Response to Yglesias’ Response to My Response to His Response to My Response” (1660 words, and one of a series, as you can tell), “The Mile-High Club: What the Right Really Thinks About Sex” (2,071 words).