A couple of days ago I read Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan. Brilliant. I’d heard him propound his thesis at UVA a few years ago, and I’d taken issue with some of what he said at the time. But with his argument laid out in front of me in a book, I could take time to reflect upon his ideas. They make sense, and he’s a beautiful writer; the book contains such crisp, elegant sentences.
And now, today, we have A Defense of Lawrence, which appears in the latest New Republic and which Sullivan has reprinted on his website. He addresses a reservation I’d had about Lawrence, a reservation that had been nagging me in the weeks since the decision was announced, but which I hadn’t gotten around to discussing here: the possibility that the Court had overstepped its bounds. Sullivan explains why the Court did not.
I really need to get cracking on my writing. I’m tired of letting my political thoughts go unsaid.