Jonah: Agree with everything you said about those tests–so of course I took the one you mentioned. A bunch of the questions were odd, and I didn’t answer many of them “strongly agree” or “strongly disagree.” My “political compass,” as they call it, had me plotted several clicks to the right of the vertical axis (making me a good bit more “libertarian” than “communist”) and touching the horizontal axis (making me pretty evenly split between “authoritarian” and “anarchist”). None of this means anything, of course, and I became especially convinced of this when I saw that the test designers place Margaret Thatcher’s views on the X-Y graph sort of close to Hitler’s.

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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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