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Sam Barr

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Porn in the USA

A Harvard Business School study has found that Americans tend to consume online pornography at roughly constant levels among the various states. But, surprise...

This Is Not Journalism: Politico Edition

When a Politico article gets an approving link, with no additional comment, from Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review, you know something's wrong. The...

The Peculiar Summum Case

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the Summum, a small, quirky Utah sect, have no constitutional right to demand that the city of Pleasant...

Evolution vs. Creationism in the Liberal State

Mr. or Mrs. "tired of liberal self-delusion" raises an interesting objection to my argument that the liberal state can remain metaphysically neutral while teaching...

George Will On A Roll

George Will really doesn't like Russ Feingold. Will's latest column attacks Feingold's proposed constitutional amendment, which would require elections to fill vacant Senate seats,...

Liberalism and the Good Life

Let me leap to the defense of Damon Linker once again, partly out of appreciation for his link to our humble blog. Linker, following Rawls,...

Illiberal Liberalism? Not so much

A whole slew of conservative (or conservative-ish) writers are taking on the idea of "illiberal liberalism," by which they mean a liberalism that tries...

On Liberaltarianism

Will Wilkinson rightly diagnoses the Republican Party's brain drain: smart people don't want to hang around with "flag-waving moral reactionaries" no matter how much...

More Hilarity at National Review

Mark Hemingway is upset because the NY Times suggests that more GOP governors favor the stimulus than actually do. Fine, fair enough. Perhaps the...

Disturbing Poll of the Week

On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, only 39% of Americans believe in his theory of evolution. This is, naturally, quite disturbing. But there...