CNN and other news organizations are reporting that eggs, among other natural foods, can now be reengineered so as to remove all their harmful attributes, but also that polls show most folks proclaim that they will not touch a genetically engineered food item. Is the idea of genetic engineering too weird to contemplate? We will be eating stuff
After the hysterical attack on James Bovard’s new book in the Los Angeles Times , the sober Reese column below is a welcome tribute to a courageous journalist. The Orlando Sentinel February 28, 1999 James Bovard, the American government’s most unfavorite journalist, has done all who value liberty a great service. He has meticulously documented
True Patriotism (A speech delivered at the Men’s Club of the Prospect Street Congregational Church in Cambridge, Mass., June 7, 1898) There are moments in every man’s life, in the life of every nation, when, under the excitement of passion, the simple truths which in common times are the foundation upon which the right order and conduct of life
World Magazine April 17, 1999 The Trouble with the Income tax As many of us have been filling out income tax forms over the past few weeks, it’s been hard not to wonder: How did we get into this mess in the first place? Why did our ancestors ever agree to a complicated system with a morass of different rates, which means a bureaucracy waiting to
Canada at War Following the lead of the U.S., Canada is participating in a massive military assault against a sovereign nation in central Europe. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a small country of approximately 12 million. Its crime is that it is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity against an armed secessionist movement. Every
This review of Secession, State and Liberty , edited by David Gordon (Transaction Publishers, 1998, 360 pages) appeared in The Southern Partisan . Diversity of Secession Secession is the quintessence of Americanism. Though we speak reverently of the American Revolution, most Americans fail to realize that the so-called revolution was actually a
This interview with Toshio Murata, the economist who translated Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action into Japanese, appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbun /Daily Yomiuri , May 7, 1998: An Interview with the President of the Yokohama College of Commerce A University should be a place where students discover a pursuit that will occupy them for a lifetime,
Hollywood correctly says that it’s unfair to blame the dream factory for society’s violence. But is it right to blame the financial community and Detroit? Apparently so, since that appears to be the message of “Fight Club,” the newest anti-capitalist screed to come out of Hollywood. In the face of all the heat tinsel town is taking, the film comes
There was a time when the public wrongly trusted in the government. The glory of the present political moment is that this is no longer true. It’s all to the good that this lack of trust has hamstrung the advocates of statism, but it has also upset some whose livelihoods hinge on an ever-growing Leviathan. In the column below, Meg Greenfield
U.S.-led airstrikes on Yugoslavia may be cruel, counterproductive and unconstitutional, but there’s no shortage of politicians, journalists and intellectuals willing to beat the drums–or at least pound their computer keyboards–for war. Former liberal peaceniks, morphed into saber-rattling hawks, have joined with neoconservative chest-pounders to
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