For many years I’ve been seeing proposals for implementing libertarian reforms that look superficially appealing and plausible, but on closer examination run hard aground either on some pesky reality of politics as it is or the extreme difficulty of waging a successful revolution. Since I’m a libertarian, you may well imagine that I find this… Continue reading Statism — Love It Or Leave It
Month: September 2003
One year later…
One year ago today, the World Trade Center fell in flames. And that very day, just a few hours after the event, I wrote the following: QUOTE BEGINS Some friends have asked me to step outside my normal role as a technology evangelist today, to point out in public that a political panic reaction to… Continue reading One year later…