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With her usual flair for dramatic self-victimization, Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to charge her critics in the media with one of the most odious accusations in Western culture: If you don’t like a person’s vision for the country, you’re free to debate that vision. If you don’t like their ideas, you’re…

Pace Sarah Palin’s spokeswoman, but of course the lady’s map featured crosshairs–just another example of the recourse to firearms imagery in contemporary Republican political rhetoric. Is it accurate to trace it to Pat Buchanan’s famous “Lock and Load!” summons to (metaphorical) arms in his insurgent 1996 campaign for the GOP presidential nomination? Whatever, it’s what…

While I’ve been on break, I’ve had a chance to read Robby George’s latest brief against same-sex marriage, this one written with a couple of younger colleagues in the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. It’s a notably Platonic exercise. The authors believe that there is a Platonic form of…
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