Musgrave on the Inevitable Hypocrisy of Partisanship

My fellow In the Agora contributor Paul Musgrave has a brilliant post on the nature of political parties as opposed to philosophies. Paul isn't a good writer, he's a great writer and the clear and lucid arguments in this essay demonstrate that.

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