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September 1997 Vol. 11, No.1 "I must have liberty. "- William Shakespeare Libert Live1-· the Tenth Anniversary Collection Over three years ofholding Liberty Editors' Conferences, we've accumulated a treasure trove oftapes featuring some ofthe most brilliant libertarian thinkers and writers. Now, as part ofour tenth anniversary celebration, we've selected some ofthe best-selling and most provocative ofour dozens ofscintillating talks. See and hear Bob Higgs on the GreatDepression, Doug Casey on finding liberty, David Friedman on anarchy and computers, J. arlin Grabbe on protecting your money, and much, much more. And for a limited time, you can order the entire Liberty Bestsellers Selection at a special bargain price! Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long • Are you Niederhoffer and Jim Rogers join investment advisors tired ofhearing people discourse on how Roosevelt and Douw.as Casey and Harry Browne, economists David big government "saved us" from the Depression? Now you Friedman and Leland Yeager, and Liberty publisher can hear brilliant economist Robert Higgs debunk this key R.W. Bradford on a voyage into the fascinating future! myth ofAmerican statism. Not to be missed! (audio: (audio: AI05; video: VI05) A213; video: V213) Investment Advice: Bonanza or BS? • Do investment The Nazification ofthe Money Supply. J. Orlin advisors have anything to offer their customers, or are Grabbe is the author ofthe standard reference on inter­ their newsletters just expensive hot air? Newsletter national financial markets. Here he eXflains how and authors Harry Browne, Douglas Casey, and R.W. why the government has seized contro ofthe banking Bradford debate David Friedman and multi­ system - and how you can foil their plans and get your millionaire speculator Victor Niederhoffer. privacy back. (audio: AI32; video: VI32) Provocative and valuable! (audio: AI43; video: VI43) Searching for Liberty Around the World • Whether The Best - and Worst - Places to Invest and Live • you're fed up with encroachments on your liberty, or World traveler and wit Douglas Casey has scrambled just interested in the opportunities ranging from through Third World backwaters and chatted with dic­ Nicaragua (!) to Hong Kong to Zambia, this is the tape tators from Cuba to Central Asia. Here he recounts his for you. Hear Doug Casey, Investment Biker authorJim most recent adventures - and reveals valuable secrets Rogers, international journalist Bruce Ramsey, Scott for protecting your wealth. (audio: AI42; video: Reid, and Ron Lipp - the men who've been there. V142) Includes a special discussion ofthe problems ofescap­ ing the IRS. (audio: AI03; video: VI03) Searching for Liberty in Small Town America· Fed up with the impersonality, rootlessness, and intrusive The Economy ofthe Twenty-First Century· Sparks regulations ofthe big city, R.W. Bradford, novelist fly when world-famous commodity speculators Victor and critic Bill Kauffman, and life-extension scientists Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw escaped to small towns across America. Hear their thoughts on the blessings r-------------,,Pleasesend me the following selections from the Liberty and difficulties oflife in small towns from Tenth Anniversary Collection. 1YeS• Washington state to Nevada to New York. (audio: _Please send me all of the audio tapes offered for only AI02;video: VI02) I $57.95 - a savings of more than 17% ! 1 - Please send me all of the video tapes offered for only Anarchy via Encryption • Tired ofhaving government $164.95 - a savings of more than 17%! flunkies being able to snoop through your personal 1 - Please send me the just the following tapes for $6.95/ affairs? David Friedman discusses the practical work­ audio or $19.95 video. ings ofnew privacy technology - and speculates on its 1 - long-term consequences, both inspiring and frighten­ ing. (audio: A116; video: VII6) 1------ $3.00 s&h per order How to Write Op-Eds· Ifyou're puzzled as to why 1 0 I enclose my check (payable to Liberty) your libertarian opinions aren't getting published in 1 0 Charge my: 0 VISA 0 MasterCard your local paper, or just want to be able to set down your thoughts accurately and concisely, get this tape name from professional journalist Jane Shaw on the nuts and I address _ bolts ofgetting your point across. (audio: A136; video: V136) I city, state, zip _ signature phone _ Libertarianism As If (the Other 99% of) People I Mattered· Loren Lomasky shows how to communi­ I account # expires __ cate effectively with the obstinately anti-freedom Call (800) 854-6991- or send to: Liberty, Dept. L61, population ofvirtually everywhere. (audio: A204; L. ---P.O. Box-1181,-.-Port Townsend,-----WA 98368 -- ..I video: v204) September 1997 Inside Liberty Volume II, Number 1 4 Letters Your two cents. 6 From the Editor What's in Liberty, and why. 7 Reflections Liberty's editors look at the world with unflinching eyes. Liberty's First Ten Years 19 The Standard Raised What Stephen Cox learned in a decade as Liberty's senior Senior Editor. 20 Why Liberty Liberty's founding editors tell what they were up to in Liberty's first and only editorial, reprinted from its first issue. 21 At Liberty It took ten years for Liberty to become what it is. Its editor remembers a few things that happened along the way. Features 27 Yes, Gambling is Productive and Rational The New Puritans, writes David Ramsay Steele, have launched a War on Gambling - but nothing about their latest jihad can withstand the truth. 35 Circus Taximus Michelle Malkin exposes public-private partners in crime. 37 A Rebel and a Drummer Scott Bullock talks with Rush lyricist Neil Peart about Ayn Rand, his left-wing critics, and the pleasures of not selling out. 40 The Pest of the Alternative Press The Utne Reader cooks up a smorgas­ bord of reflexive radicalism, goofy spiritualism, and an earnestness that leaves no room for wit or lively writing. Brian Doherty enjoys sampling their fare. 43 Tobacco's Show Trial The tobacco settlement, writes Robert Higgs, isn't just a looting unprecedented in scale - it's a scientifically bankrupt folly that reveals Americans' eagerness for the yoke. 45 Where There's Smoke There's Liars Loren Lomasky reflects on the similarities between smoking a pipe and making love. 47 The Weak Case for Government Schooling David friedman tries to make sense of the case for goverment schools. 55 Gun-Point Democracy in Africa George Ayittey finds solutions to Africa's problems in the continent's indigenous heritage of village markets, free enterprise, and free trade. 59 Pandering to a Dead Dynasty Who is Lew Rockwell, asks Tom G. Palmer, and why is he linking one of history's great libertarians to a reactionary empire? Reviews 61 Documenting Disaster Has the government made even one true statement about what happened at Waco? Gary Alexander reviews a new documentary about the massacre, and wonders. 64 The Economics of Real Life Richard Kostelanetz reads David Friedman's latest book, and finds luminous sentences - but thinks the best things in life are still free. 65 The China Demon Pundits are lining up to inflate the Chinese threat; Leon Hadar pops their bubble. 67 Margin for Error Ayn Rand's notes on the books she read, writes John Hospers, offer a mixture of scathing criticism and tendentious misinterpretation. 68 Booknotes John Bergstrom, Bruce Ramsey, and Harry Browne on the worst nightmares of liberals, communists, and San Francisco Democrats. 69 Classified Advertising 70 Notes on Contributors September 1997 notion was clearly born in the context of Letters religious rhetoric, as exemplified by the [ Declaration's phrase"endowed by their J Creator." And as Virkkala says ("The No Shelter from Criticism enzymes evolved. Behe knows all this, Stilted Logic of Natural Rights," July 1997), it was a convenient fiction in its Most women's shelter directors are but he never explains why a designed far too busy seeking funding and system would leave such a clear evolu­ day. Clearly, the rights to life, liberty, stretching scarce resources to spend tionary record, and he airily dismisses and property are entirely alienable, and energy on the kind of strident political well-understood genetic mechanisms in fact are alienated from us by the state statements Joy S. Taylor claims to have with absurd probability arguments that and other criminals. Obviously, if we heard ("No Shelter from the Storm," contradict elementary statistics. already had such rights, we would not July 1997). It's hard to explain how unconvinc­ have to advocate and fight for them. Certainly any agency providing ing this is to biologists, and it's hard to Byron Fraser money requires accurate accounting of say what evidence might persuade Behe Coquitlam, British Columbia their funds, but the examples she cites that blood clotting could have evolved, Finance and Freedom appear to this longtime volunteer and short of synthesizing all the recon­ To judge from Robert H. Nelson's board member to be due to misunder­ structed stages and showing that every review of Murray Rothbard's An standings during her training. Our step is functional, and every change an Austrian Perspective on the History of shelter receives much of its funding improvement. Economic Thought ("Rothbard's Final (slightly over half) from various state Unfortunately, Behe feels no need to Testament," March 1997), Rothbard and federal agencies. The remainder, provide any evidence for his own views, seems to lump Luther, Calvin, and from various non-government agencies, such as his speculation that blood clot­ other Protestants together. This explains requires the same careful accounting as ting genes may have existed in the first Rothbard's contradiction of most the former. cell, four billion years ago. If that were scholars who see the history of Because there are always more true, then we would expect to find Protestantism as democratic and clients than shelter beds, we must blood clotting genes in organisms that individualistic.
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