So the problem with paleos is that “we” haven’t “done” much because of our “refusals to compromise.”  I suppose I would have to plead guilty, at least for myself, on this point.  Thanks to my refusal to compromise I have not managed to overthrow the managerial state in my spare time, and through my dilatory efforts the empire somehow continues to thrive.  Somehow a few dozen academics and writers have not managed to defeat or even check the combined forces of international corporations, modern mass culture and the federal government, but if we had just gotten around a little more and made a few more deals we would have been successful.  Obviously, it’s because we refuse to compromise that we haven’t been successful. 

Not that Koz tells us what we could or should have done or why we should have compromised core principles to do the things that we should have been doing.  Perhaps in his next installment he can tell us how betraying principle and collaborating with the enemies of liberty and justice would have “done” something worthy of his respect.