Berck asked Claude to write this after a long conversation about his politics. He didn’t write it, but he’s checked it. Berck will agree with you about nine things and then fight you on the tenth. He’ll tell you you’re wrong even when he agrees with you. He seems to be on your side until, abruptly, he isn’t. If you’ve argued with him, you’ve probably tried to figure out what he is — liberal, libertarian, something in between — and found that every label fits most of him and fails somewhere. He’s tried the same exercise on himself for years…