Category Archives: politics

maybe it shoulda been called the Kallikak monkey trial

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 10 by Anton

Inherit the Wind somehow never mentioned that the evilutionist textbook used by John Scopes was racist and eugenist. Jim Lindgren, Volokh Conspirator, has the story.

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the L-word

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 10 by Anton

About a decade ago, someone or other wrote in The Nation advocating that the Left reclaim the word populist. I was tempted to send a letter asking whether, in that case, we individualists could have liberal back. The Economist, in … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 10 by Anton

H L Mencken, quoted by David Friedman in the December issue of Liberty In nothing did the founders of this country so demonstrate their essential naïveté than in attempting to constrain government from all of its favorite abuses, and entrusting … Continue reading →

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duelling policies

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 10 by Anton

Mark A R Kleiman says a number of sane things, but also this: Requiring everyone who wants to have a gun to apply for a discretionary permit . . . serves no good purpose that I can see. The same … Continue reading →

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a better mousetrap

Posted on Monday, 2004 November 08 by Anton

Ballot Access News: Instant-Runoff Voting Makes Gains

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secession, anyone?

Posted on Friday, 2004 November 05 by Anton

Joe Sobran’s view of Lincoln is more charitable than that of (say) Neil Smith or Thomas DiLorenzo, not that that’s saying much, but he still calls the war a tragic blunder. Given the timing of that column (October 7), I … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Thursday, 2004 November 04 by Anton

Thomas Babington Macaulay, quoted in The Economist Oct.30 p.48 If men are to wait for liberty till they become good and wise in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

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