1.0 link 65517 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-cox/the-electorate-must-be-in_b_65517.html Progressives often find it difficult to convey our ideas succinctly, so I was not surprised to find myself struggling to express my opposition to the conservative clamor against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia this week. As usual, one of the key difficulties was defining the neoconservative position from an ideological standpoint, rather than from the jingoistic angle that they themselves prefer. Luckily, Bill Kristol's ludicrous proposition that Columbia students boycott the event provided just the accidental window into the...

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