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Jim Henley has given up on Eugene Volokh.

I’ve always considered his specialty to be showy moral handwringing on the way to siding with Power anyway. The further you get from standard Republican issues like guns and university speech codes, the more likely he is to arrive, with exquisite regret, at the conclusion that the State, particularly when helmed by George W. Bush, must have its way.

I came to the same conclusion a few weeks ago, but it wasn’t easy. Volokh is a great writer, and his opinions used to carry a lot of weight with me.

But don’t stop reading the Conspiracy - even as Eugene jumps the shark, Jacob Levy is blogging up a storm on the Bush-Zarqawi story.