shington, DC. Brooks describes himself as being originally a liberal before “coming to my senses.” In 1983, he wrote a parody of conservative pundit William F. Buckley Jr., which said “Tn the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for

Consider the scaffolds, scab lists during union strikes, or Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Or the proposal made by prominent conservative William F. Buckley Jr. in 1986 to tattoo people with AIDS. These instances of shaming now seem an affront to individual liberty. Getting rid of shaming seems like a pretty