Pithy Wisdom

William Voegeli. plugging his new book Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion, on the Power Line website.

Being simultaneously compassionate and nonjudgmental - caring about how people are but not about what they do - disregards the many important ways that what they do determines how they are.

By contrast, conservatives believe much of what is wrong with how people are is the result of the poor choices they make on a regular basis. Everyone who has experienced a hangover understands how this works.