May 7, 2014 9:15AM # Liberal Moral Superiority By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) --- SHARE 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](http://2paragraphs.com/2014/04/affirmative-action-and-the-dirty-little-secret-of-public-universities/)” 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](https://www.cato.org/blog/reflections-schuette-v-coalition-defend-affirmative-action) 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](http://2paragraphs.com/2014/04/affirmative-action-and-the-dirty-little-secret-of-public-universities/). Today, they asked me to do the same with [last week’s post](https://www.cato.org/blog/politics-personal-destruction-campaign-finance-version) on whether liberal campaign contributors’ pretentions to moral superiority could pass the straight-face test. You’ll find that post epitomized [here](http://2paragraphs.com/2014/05/15281/). ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).