{"id":261,"date":"2003-07-10T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/10\/leftists-should-read-the-volokh-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2003-07-10T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T20:44:44","slug":"leftists-should-read-the-volokh-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Leftists should read the Volokh Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a leftist, should it embarrass me that if I was stuck on a desert island with only one blog to read, I might choose The Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>? Written by a bunch of conservative\/libertarian law professors, I personally don’t find any other blog as consistently interesting and informative.<\/p>\n

A couple of times I’ve been told by lefty friends that they don’t read any right-wing blogs* – and my reaction is always the same – “what, not even Volokh?”<\/p>\n

Anyhow, as a public service to any of my left-wing readers, here’s a couple of posts that y’all should enjoy even if the only thing you enjoy about blogs is seeing right-wing viewpoints used to wipe the floor<\/i>. First, a Volokh reader writes in suggesting that Sodomy laws can be justified as ” a backup to the rape law”; Eugene V. responds with a modest proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Second, Eugene Volokh takes on Pat Buchanan’s <\/a>defense of the slave south. (It’s a bit like watching Jackie Chan fight with some poor shmuck extra – there’s no suspense about who’ll win, but it’s still worth watching for how nice Jackie’s\/Volokh’s moves are).<\/p>\n

This odd case (which Volokh <\/a>found on Is That Legal?<\/a>) in which President Bush, of all people, says something I’ve thought many times:<\/p>\n

At every turn, the struggle for equality was resisted by many of the powerful. And some have said we should not judge their failures by the standards of a later time, yet in every time there were men and women who clearly saw this sin and called it by name.<\/div>\n

And so many more… seriously, everyone (or at least every political-junkie-blog-reader) should read Volokh.<\/p>\n

By the way, some academic leftists have set up a group blog, which (fairly or not) I’ve already seen referred to a couple of times as a liberal Volokh. It’s called the Crooked Timber blog<\/a>, if you want to check it out.<\/p>\n

(Footnote: *For folks tempted to say that this post proves that many lefties are intellectually limited and refuse to read contrary opinions… please don’t bother. It’s unwarranted to assume that someone who avoids right-wing bloggers <\/i>doesn’t read right-wingers at all<\/i>.).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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