The Conservative Case For Big Science

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I'm a fan of Rand Paul. And I'm not the only one. The 2016 presidential contender's headstrong, shoot-from-the-hip style in the face of orthodoxy is finding its mark among younger voters, a rarity for a Republican. The Kentucky senator embodies a new type of politics — a cocktail of classical conservatism and libertarianism with just a twist of liberalism for good, electable measure. And yet, for all his promise, Paul continues to cling to some jarringly conventional ideas. Take his parroting of the supposedly "conservative" notion that the government should shy away from large-scale, federally funded science initiatives.

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