‘All’s fair in love and war’ – what a contemptible lie!

—Lazarus Long


Archive for September, 2003

Statism — Love It Or Leave It

Monday, September 29th, 2003

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 annoying. How do [...]

One year later…

Thursday, September 11th, 2003

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:

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 the 9/11 terrorist attack could [...]