Nice piece (well-informed and -written). If we take its thesis seriously-that Adorno’s pessimism about public reason has been vindicated-we ought to glaze such figures as Jay Bernstein or Raymond Geuss who protested where Habermas took critical theory.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.
