Nature abhors a vacuum. So in an era of declining attention spans (or so we’re told), as blog posts were growing longer, Twitter came along. That left a vacuum in between that a site called “2paragraphs” is filling—long enough to make a substantive point or two, short enough to be read, “respecting people’s time and intelligence,” its editors say.


Two weeks ago, seeing my post on the Court’s recent affirmative action decision, they asked me to reduce my thoughts to two paragraphs. It killed me to throw out perfectly good prose over which I’d labored mightily, but I did. Today, they asked me to do the same with last week’s post on whether liberal campaign contributors’ pretentions to moral superiority could pass the straight‐​face test. You’ll find that post epitomized here.