The book on Bennett: Bill Bennet's gambling problem
Should we judge Bill Bennett for being an obsessive gambler, for losing over $1 million in a two-month period and $8 million over ten years? He wouldn’t have it any other way. In his 1998 bestseller, The Death of Outrage, Bennett bemoaned the wretched moral state of our nation, and said part of the problem is that we’re afraid to judge people on moral issues. “We live in an era when it has become unfashionable to make judgments on a whole range of consequential behaviors and attitudes.” He called for a revival of judgmentalism.