An Odd Alliance against Free Trade Left and Right Fear Treaty Will Weaken Control on Economic Choices

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It has become a cliche among political analysts that the old ideological categories don't mean much in the post-Cold War world. With right and left in disarray, we supposedly have entered a post-ideological age in which pragmatism will dominate, giving us rule by a vital center with no guiding principles.

The post-ideological age is a myth, however.

The current ideological flux has, in fact, exposed deeper divisions than the ones to which we have long been accustomed. Rather than a post-ideological age, we are now in a radically ideological age, in which ideas are taken to their roots, to their fundamentals, in which the categories are broader and deeper and the …