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Sam Barr

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Anthony Weiner's Corruption

The relationship between representative and represented is sacred, and by trading political admiration for sexual gratification, Anthony Weiner corrupted that relationship.

My HPR Education

A defense of student political expression

Should We Make Everyone Vote?

Dylan Matthews has a well-meaning but ultimately misguided column in today's Crimson arguing for compulsory voting. Let's start with what Dylan gets right. He is...

Academic Pluralism Run Amok

Today the Crimson editors recommend that more concentrations allow non-traditional theses. They say, "a creative or experience-based thesis could, for many, serve as an...

Michelle Obama and the First Lady’s Role

In today's Crimson, Dhruv Singhal takes on First Lady Michelle Obama, mocking her "seizure-inducing inanities" and the media's obsession with her fashion choices. First, let...

An Overcompensated Public Sector?

We have something like a bipartisan consensus that public sector unions are a major cause of states' budget shortfalls and that public sector workers...

On the Broccoli Objection

Those who believe the health insurance mandate is unconstitutional have relied frequently on slippery-slope arguments. Many have been convinced by what Andrew Koppelman calls...

Weighing In: The Slippery Originalist

Apparently, by raising questions which are always raised against originalists and asking for an originalist's reply, I am guilty of pedantry and disparaging the...

Lying with Statistics

The headline at RealClearPolitics: "65% of doctors think new law will worsen care." The headline at CNBC: "Survey: U.S. doctors fear healthcare reform." The headline at...

Updating the Constitution

Wyatt Troia has a column in the Crimson arguing that the Constitution, as it stands, does not permit many "liberal schemes" (including the health...