Category Archives: politics

Iceland

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 08 by Anton

For three centuries beginning in 930, the Norse settlers of Iceland enjoyed the literate world’s nearest thing to a stateless society; possibly the largest non-nomadic society ever to lack territorial monopolies in government. Competition between the goðar (customarily and poorly … Continue reading →

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science, journalism and opinion

Posted on Thursday, 2002 June 06 by Anton

John Derbyshire: (Like any honest reactionary, I loathe the [New York] Times. I must give them credit, though, for their coverage of math and science, which is way above that of any other newspaper I know, except the even more … Continue reading →

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pity the poor little superpower

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

Pejman writes: We want to pursue this particular dream that we have, and we would like it if the world left us alone to pursue it. We don’t particularly lust for an empire, or for hegemony – we take up … Continue reading →

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Fukuyama II

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Joe Sobran: Addicts of the State You might almost suspect Fukuyama of gallows humor when he says that only the government could be counted on to send firemen into buildings. We all know what happened to those firemen and those … Continue reading →

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the copyright wars

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

politechbot.com: Hollywood wants to plug “analog hole,” regulate A-D converters The people who tried to take away your VCR are at it again. Which raises the question: if “they” couldn’t do that, how did they since get powerful enough that … Continue reading →

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having a Lilecious day

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 31 by Anton

. . . in the slow moments of my temp job. Lileks watches 9/11 documentary: It says something about America that you can’t blow up an average skyscraper without killing people of every race and creed on the planet. It says something … Continue reading →