Homework!

Incidentally, for good overviews of negative and positive liberties, see these links. I regret starting this post on such a brainy note, but I've been thinking about these different "liberties" for a while. Without falling into the (oft conservative) trap of black and white logic, I do think current conservative tendency is to push negative liberties (a kind of libertarianism, abortion being a looming exception) and liberals positive liberties (exemplified most obviously in affirmative action, though conservatives have now coopted that one!) Anyway, for all this inflicting of homework, maybe I deserve conservative's ire for intellectual elitism. Read and respond, or just contribute something new and leave me to chew my cud...