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Update: looks like the offer’s gone now.

George Will wonders why conservatives are happier than liberals and predictably comes up with reasons that conservatism causes happiness.

Well, George, you’ve got to understand the correlative fallacy here. Maybe it’s not that being conservative makes one happy but rather that being happy (read: complacent) makes one interested in preserving the status quo and keeping one’s own circumstances as wonderful as possible (at the expense of the people whose own circumstances may not make them so happy).

I’m not saying that’s true, I’m just saying that, you know, let’s not jump to self-congragulatory conclusions just yet.

My favorite part is definitely this impressive bit of compressed contradiction:

Such puzzles show why social science is not for amateurs. Still, one cannot — yet — be prosecuted for committing theory without a license, so consider a few explanations of the happiness gap.

Also, going hunting is not for amateurs. Still, one cannot — yet — be prosecuted for hunting without a license. Apparently.