Joe Knippenberg has discovered what I argued long ago, Jonathan Chait is a monk in the gnostic faith of liberalism. Liberalism, for Chaitians, is whatever liberals want to do and whatever they think is good. It isn’t merely, or even largely, an ideology so much as a dogma which says that liberalism and wisdom are interchangeable terms. Ideas? Pheh. Abstract principles? Hooey! Pragmatism — code for “whatever we think this week” — is the only ism for us!