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Sam Barr

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The Purposes of Marriage

Over at the Corner, Matthew Franck finds much wisdom in the following teleological view of marriage: "The essential purpose of marriage is to attach...

Re: A Reactionary Party

Chris, I fear, has read too much into my use of the word "reactionary." I meant only to suggest that Republicans have gone with...

A Reactionary Party

Nate Silver notices that, of the various oppositional poses that Republicans had to choose from, they have seemed exclusively to pursue the libertarian one....

The Incentives of Proposing Tax Cuts for the Very Rich

Reading today's New York Times editorial on the Lincoln-Kyl proposal to cut estate taxes to the tune of $250 billion, I wondered about what...

The Supreme Court as Movie Reviewer?

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the interesting, vexing, and somewhat hilarious case of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. The...

D.C. v. Heller and "Liberal Originalism"

In last summer's issue, I predicted that the seemingly momentous gun-control case of D.C. v. Heller might turn out to be not such a...

Abortion Rights at the Court

Crucial crossroad, or more of the same?Every election cycle, we are told that the future of the Supreme Court, and particularly the future of...

Follow-up: Still Not John Galt

It's noteworthy how some right-wing bloggers seem just as interested in the idea that the poor don't work hard, as they are in the...

I'm Not John Galt

The conservative blogs are afire with Ayn Rand love. Apparently, by raising the top marginal tax rate back to where it was in the...

Ideology and the Courts

Obama and the conservative legal movement That a president would search for judges who are ideological allies is unsurprising, to say the least. Certainly we...