As the title American Political Values indicates, most of the material here will be about political values. In everyday usage, my own political values would cause me to be called a liberal, or at least a social liberal. However, from time to time I read assertions about what liberals are said to believe (e.g., by New York Times columnists David Brooks and Ross Douthat) that I do not recognize as liberal and would not be true of me. For that reason, I am more comfortable sayin