Schmitt - his views on liberalism and its attempts to suppress conflict, the nature of sovereignty and the hidden influence of theological thinking in secular thought are as brilliant as they are disturbing. Guess you have to divorce content from context -his politics were ****- but to paraphrase Berlin, I am bored of reading people who are allies. I prefer to read the enemy, because the enemy penetrates the defenses.
No I am not a Cameronite, though I don't particularly like Labour either. Through sheer accident, I've seen both parties and governments up close to feel anything but sceptical about current British politics. Back to Ralph, until political philosophy grapples seriously with human nature -and dare I say it, science- both left and right will be a jumble of wishful thinking and risk practical irrelevance.