Ideologues

Will Wilkinson slams Jonathan Chait for the assumption that

liberals by and large are empiricists, willing to go where the evidence takes them, while conservatives (loosely and irresponsibly identified with free-market types) are dogmatists who will unaccountably but doggedly cling to principle even after being brought low by data.

I hear a lot of that from my liberal friends and relatives, which is pretty ironic given their dogmatism. Which is not to say there are not dogmatists on both (all?) sides, a point Wilkinson also makes.