In this excellent New York Sun column, Manhattan Institute scholar John McWhorter (author of several sharp books including Winning the Race, about which I wrote here) writes about the pervasive tendency for leftists to stereotype all “conservatives” as rather dumb people whose ideas don’t merit any serious consideration.

This column will have you nodding your head and saying, “Yes — that’s just what happens when you question some element of the leftist view of the world.”