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In my column today at the Washington Examiner, I take on an absurdly cartoonish view of conservative legal thought that is prevalent on the Left, in this case exemplified by a dumb column by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick. It is impossible to have a legitimate political debate when one side is too stuck in its own head and so (falsely) sure of its own moral and intellectual superiority that it doesn't even make an effort to understand the other side. The Left consistently takes that attitude toward the Right, though, which is one reason it is so often caught unawards when the Right beats it in the battle of ideas.