Meanness and the Moralization of Concretes

Many years ago, a friend debated a woman on a radio show about environmentalism. My friend, of course, argued for free markets while the woman argued for the use of the government as solution to nearly all problems.After the show, I asked my friend what the woman looked like. He said, “She looked mean.”His statement has stuck in my mind all these years because I think it says something about the

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