I’ve updated last night’s post, but I’m still not done.
I would also note that there are a number of comments at the original piece, with a couple recent good ones by frequent Transterrestrial commenter Karl Hollowell. Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be links to individual comments.
Why would anybody take Elhafnawy seriously? His representation of both the market-oriented space side of the argument and what he defines as “conservatives” are wildly atpical of either community.
It particularly strains credulity that he would represent Nicholson Baker, a whackadoodle pacifist wth serious perception-of-reality problems, as any kind of “conservative”. There’s the definition of conservative that’s been in use in the English-speaking world for the past century or so, which is to say, preserving the values that support a constitutional representative political system with a market economy, and then there’s Elhafnawy’s definition. Elhafnawy should just invent a word, maybe (typing at random, here) “dhziuueybdcnma” or ” uaygsrabsjdbue” to represent whatever he is using the word “conservative’ to describe, and let the rest of us use the words of the English language as they are generally understood.