Here's a quick response to comments on my post last week re
Sarah Palin's stylistic debt to popular liberalism, or more
precisely, the culture that popular liberalism helped shape. 
Mainly I want to respond to the suggestion that I have maligned
liberalism by associating it with Palin's illogic, solipsism,
sense of aggrievement and tendency to dismiss criticism as hate
speech or libel.         I probably should have explicitly
acknowledged the obvious --  that, like most isms, (feminism,
conservatism, socialism, or libertarianism) liberalism is not
monolithic.  It is, however, marked by dominant trends,
especially in its popular incarnations.  The liberalism of John
Stuart Mill, for example, (notably his defense of free speech)
is difficult to reconcile with what passes for liberalism on
college campuses today.  It's true that, back in the 1980s, when
Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin proposed restricting
pornography as a civil rights violation, they met with
resistance from many traditional, liberal civ