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Of Laws and Libraries

The liberal imagination can understand that bad things are bad but fails to see how its own ideological commitments make fighting bad things nearly impossible.

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Nicholas Theisen
Feb 08, 2024
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Meme of child crying holding a handgun
Candid photo of Sheriff Brad Kunkel as a child mourning his destiny to become an enforcer of reactionary state laws.

As a bit of a reprieve from ALWAYS HOUSING CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP, I wanted to write about two very current issues, one of which has garnered considerable media attention and the other has gotten almost none. I imagine most people reading t…

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