That whole paragraph is a fairly perfect description... the fairest you could be to him in those "debates" was that there was probably the occasional interesting concept or idea buried somewhere in the nonsense, but if so it just wasn't worth the effort to extricate it.
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Originally Posted by rubecube
the "marketplace of ideas" (one of the most embarrassing terms out there).
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This is just such a silly thing to write. You aren't remotely qualified, in any sense, to make this type of statement about a concept that's been ensconced in political philosophy and discussed ad nauseum for hundreds of years.