Jeremy Lott has been published in nearly 100 magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Sun-Times , the New York Post , and National Review . Stateside, his work has appeared in outlets from Christianity Today to Seattle's alternative weekly the Stranger . Internationally, the Lott byline has appeared in publications in Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands. A contributing editor to Books & Culture , Lott's work has sparked debate from commentators of every stripe. Conservative Charles Colson has featured his articles in his BreakPoint radio commentaries and bestselling liberal author Chris Mooney called his piece on book burning and free speech the "best counter-intuitive argument ever." Lott is the author of the equally counter-intuitive book, In Defense of Hypocrisy: Picking Sides in the War on Virtue .