Auron MacIntyre is a Pseudo-Intellectual

One thing you should know about political writing is it rather common for an article which is supposed to be about one topic to devolve into another — you originally plan to only write a few paragraphs on something but then “a few paragraphs” turns into “half the piece in question.” Yesterday’s article was one such occasion, as I originally intended on writing a piece about the nonsensical notion of America Trump and his supporters have, only for it to turn into me primarily discussing a terrible book by Auron MacIntyre.

The article which I originally planned to write might come out, but I do want to continue discussing The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies largely to make the point that it is just, all around, not very good.

The book has a bad habit of writing in broad strokes — which is not uncommon for this genre of right-wing literature. However, if one takes a moment to seriously consider what MacIntyre is arguing, they find it to make little sense, take this statement as an example:

Think about a handful of our most elite institutions: Harvard, Yale, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. We’ve been told we live in a marketplace of ideas, an intellectual Darwinian arena where theories compete and only the strong survive. Harvard, then, should be competing with Yale and the Times competing…