If you haven’t heard about Left2Right, go check it out. It’s a blog written by a lot of high-powered thinkers who self-identify as “left” and who want to preach to someone else besides the converted. Some people call it “the Volokh Conspiracy of the left” (another blog you should read if you aren’t already).
After a bit of a shaky start, the blog has carved out a rather impressive niche for itself: a place where the so-called “right-wing” can read and learn what the so-called “left wing” thinks without some of the slander, innuendo, and sloppy thinking that so often permeates highly partisan sites. And the ideas are hard-hitting: with many of the posts, you cannot sustain dissent without some serious thinking about your own position.
In particular, let me recommend these posts: Elizabeth Anderson on diversity, patriotism, and the abortion debate (parts one and two); Don Herzog on the media and the meaning of equality, Gerald Dworkin on domestic security and perception (one and two), and David Velleman on values and the election.
It’s also worth looking at the site’s original mission statement, and their reactions to success that have modified that mission.
(Why the scare quotes around “left” and “right”? Maybe I’ll write about that sometime, but basically I think the categories have no meaning.)