Articles by Lee Harris
- Sympathy for the Devil Saturday, April 27, 2013
- When the search for motives leads to moral alibis.
- North Korea's Bluffing Blowhard Saturday, April 6, 2013
- Should we still be worried even if North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is only bluffing? The best policy may be to humor him.
- Why Not Soak the Rich? Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- Republicans don’t want to ask multimillionaires to pay a penny more in taxes. Isn’t that proof that the Republican Party is the party of the rich, as liberals ...
- Enlightened Conservatism Monday, February 18, 2013
- A cause is to politics what fanaticism is to religion — a plague to be avoided at all costs.
- Can the GOP Be Saved? The Myth of the Demographic Fix Wednesday, January 30, 2013
- Conventional wisdom holds that as African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and gays increase their political clout, Republicans must devise a way of reaching out ...
- What Does It Mean to Say That a Gun Law Is Tough? Wednesday, January 16, 2013
- Perhaps the best that can be said about the New York gun law is that it is a modern updating of the old principle of apotropaic magic.
- The Trouble with Conspiracy Theories Saturday, January 12, 2013
- Perhaps the problem with conspiracy theorists is not that they have gone too far, but that they haven’t quite gone far enough yet. But, if James Tracy is any ...
- Eric Hobsbawm, Eugene Genovese, and the End of History Friday, October 5, 2012
- Grand historical narratives have been repeatedly abused by those true believers who convince themselves that a few million lives are a small price to pay to ...
- Stop Apologizing for Our Liberties Wednesday, September 26, 2012
- You cannot apologize to a fanatic. It only serves to convince him that he was right all along, and that is the last course the United States should be pursuing ...
- Obama and Second Chances Thursday, September 20, 2012
- The voters who really matter are those who, like me, were willing to give Obama a chance the first time around, but who, after watching his performance over ...
- Thucydides in London: Would the Ancient Greeks Approve of Our Modern Olympics? Thursday, August 9, 2012
- The precious heritage of ancient Greece: The recognition that a life without excitement is a life scarcely worth living and that a life of excitement must ...
- ‘It’s Not About Crime, It’s About Values’ Thursday, July 12, 2012
- On the moral pussyfooting of contemporary liberalism.
- Scalia’s Wise Dissent Thursday, July 5, 2012
- Critics of Justice Scalia’s dissent have lambasted him for his reference to Obama and have mocked his admission that his mind was ‘boggled’ by the government’s ...
- Are Americans Too Dumb for Democracy? Saturday, June 9, 2012
- The best hope for democracy still lies in the unregulated marketplace of ideas, in which the maxim ‘Let the buyer beware’ remains the surest safeguard against ...
- The Hayek Effect: The Political Consequences of Planned Austerity Thursday, May 17, 2012
- Why the political revolt in Greece may not be a fluke, but a harbinger of more revolts to come.
- The Occupy Movement and the Communism of Everyday Life Monday, May 7, 2012
- As Occupy protesters turn violent, it’s worth reflecting on why the movement failed in the first place.
- Science and the Republican Brain Monday, April 30, 2012
- The so-called Republican brain, with its deep resistance to yielding before mere scientific evidence, has played an indispensable role in the making of modern ...
- Why ObamaCare Has Proved a Hard Sell Monday, April 9, 2012
- It may be that ObamaCare isn’t ‘suitable for framing’ and that there is no way to make the individual mandate intuitively convincing to ordinary Americans.
- More than Just Broccoli: The Real Slippery Slope of ObamaCare’s ‘Must-Buy’ Provision Wednesday, March 28, 2012
- If ObamaCare is judged constitutional, it will not simply be a new law, but a precedent for laws of the kind that should trouble us all.
- Double Talk about Double Standards Thursday, March 15, 2012
- Writing in the New York Times, Stanley Fish reveals he is happy to live with an immoral double standard; but no decent society can.
- Explaining the Santorum Surprise Friday, February 17, 2012
- It was a foolish hope all along to imagine that the American people would be so exclusively concerned about their narrow economic self-interest that they would ...
- Tim Tebow and the Atheist’s Dilemma Friday, January 20, 2012
- Perhaps the only effective remedy for the all-too-human temptation to hubris among the spectacularly gifted, especially when they happen to be amazingly lucky ...
- The Spirit of Independence: The Social Psychology of Freedom Friday, July 2, 2010
- Intellectuals routinely give undue weight to people’s ideas. They tend to believe that ideas cause attitudes, though it is far more often the other way around. ...
- The Revolt Against Cronyism Thursday, June 24, 2010
- What the South Carolina Republican primary means.
- Extremism in the Defense of Rand Paul Is No Vice Tuesday, May 25, 2010
- A healthy democratic society should be grateful for those who are extremists in the defense of liberty. Even when the extremists are wrong.
- Weak Tea or Strong Tea? Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- Too many of those currently ‘analyzing’ the Tea Party movement seem to have no genuine interest in grappling with its potential historical significance.
- ‘Attention Must Be Paid…’ Friday, February 19, 2010
- Understanding Joe Stack, anger, and ideology.
- Why We Still Argue About Darwin (And Why We Should) Thursday, February 12, 2009
- When Darwin ceases to astonish us, we will cease to understand him.