A species of left-liberal author focuses on nitpicking, hairsplitting, quibbling, and demanding extra "research." This sort of author elevates pedantry into an artwork, usually underneath the auspices of "debunking" any violation of left-liberal opinion. Although some well-known figures working on this style may deem their strategies heterodox, their evaluation, by some unusual metaphysics, at all times leads again to assist for the reigning orthodoxy.