Jonah, your reader hasn’t pegged anything except perhaps a straw man. Few here, certainly not I, have advocated a set of policies involving greater regulation and higher taxes. God forbid! But neither have I ever said that these are mere matters of taste or preference. I have been most clear on this point.
What the reader misses is what I described here: the need to recover a truly social realm that is neither driven by statist policy prescriptions nor by individualistic prescriptions of taste. I think it is this concept which is proving such a sticking point as it has become so ingrained in us to think either in terms of government action or individual choice, nothing else registers.
