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David Lewis Schaefer

David Lewis Schaefer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. A three-time NEH fellow and recipient of numerous other awards, he is author of The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (second ed., 2019) and Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition.(2007), among other books, essays, and reviews.

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Online Gambling Corrupts Sports—And Americans, Too 

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The legalization of sports betting, especially at the college level, is a corruption not only of athletics and of education but of American society in general.
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The Steady State Delusion

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While still on the fringe, organizations like The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) seek to push anti-growth ideas into the political mainstream. The vision is economically illiterate, politically implausible, and incompatible with America’s constitutional freedoms.