Ezra Klein joins Jason Zengerle in defending Barack Obama against the silly plagiarism charge leveled by Hilllary Clinton, and in the process reveals some confusion about what ghostwriters actually do:
“Moreover, as Jason Zengerle reminds us, Clinton has written two books, both with ghostwriters, one in which she didn’t even credit the ghostwrite in the acknowledgments, [...]
Introit
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.-
