Admissions of illiberalism

Recently I was having a twitter conversation with Kevin Zelnio and Eric Michael Johnson about the fact that I define myself as "right-wing." Kevin kind of implied that I was poseur in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. I don't wear my political beliefs on my sleeve too much in this space because 1) I find talking about politics kind of boring (though data analysis less so) 2) My own views are somewhat idiosyncratic, as I am socially liberal on many "hot button" issues 3) Science is more interesting than politics, and we can have a real conversation about it. If I started offering my stupid uninformed opinions on politics I'd have to open up the floor to my liberal readers to offer their stupid uninformed opinions on politics. There's a lot of that on the web, so I don't see where that's in anyone's interest. But I am sincere. I don't consider ...