Jonathan, Randy Barnett did not really disavow the charge of hypocrisy against William Bennett. He simultaneously floated the charge of hypocrisy, and then said he didn’t much like it. That left the charge in the air, despite the quasi-disavowal, and it had to be answered. I don’t know about Bennett’s arguments when he was drug czar, but I do know that in the past few years, Bennett has indeed engaged the arguments of those who want to legalize drugs. Bennett, for example, responded to the film Traffic in a fair amount of detail. Among Bennett’s points was the danger of the slippery slope to harder drugs, and this, it seems to me, was central to Bennett’s moral differentiation between drugs and gambling. Now it’s fair to disagree with Bennett, but it’s just not true that he has never spoken seriously to the arguments of his critics.