A bit more about that letter: I don’t mean to suggest that only crunchy-con parents worry about the pornification of the public square and its effect on their kids. Most conservatives do, and a lot of liberals besides. What I think is particularly crunchy about that woman’s letter was the sense that she and her family need to retreat behind defensible borders, so to speak. Tom Hibbs and I have been e-mailing about a particular weakness he sees in the CC idea, which is a lack of clarity about how much crunchy cons need to separate from the world and how much we have a duty to be a part of it. That’s going to be the focus of the final week of discussion, so I don’t want to jump-start that here. I did want to head off the inevitable e-mails accusing me of saying that only crunchy cons care about the degraded public environment.
