While I’m seething with rage and envy that I wasn’t invited to Aspen while Ramesh, Douthat and others were, and while my schadenfreude would red-line if conservatives who went in my stead were greeted with shame and ridicule, I nonetheless suspect that some nuance and complexity has been drained away in this reportage which has Ramesh defining conservatism as the philosophy of torture and conservatives generally seeing themselves as “tree-huggers.” But what do I know? I was in DC having my own super-cool festival of ideas and none of those people were invited.