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Liberty Magazine January 1995.Pdf Mime Type The Bell Curve, Stupidity, and January 1995 Vol. 8, No.3 $4.00 You ~ ,.';.\, . ~00 . c Libertarian Bestsellers autographed by their authors - the ideal holiday gift! Investment Biker The story of a legendary Wall Street investor's·travels around the world by motorcycle, searching out new investments and adventures. "One of the most broadly appealing libertarian books ever published." -R.W. Bradford, LffiERTY ... autographed by the author, Jim Rogers. (402 pp.) $25.00 hard cover. Crisis Investing for the Rest of the '90s This perceptive classic updated for today's investor! "Creative metaphors; hilarious, pithy anecdotes; innovative graphic analyses." -Victor Niederhoffer, LffiERTY ... autographed by the author, Douglas Casey. (444 pp.) $22.50 hard cover. It Carne froIn Arkansas David Boaz, Karl Hess, Douglas Casey, Randal O'Toole, Harry Browne, Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw, and others skewer the Clinton administration ... autographed by the editor, R.W. Bradford. (180 pp.) $12.95 soft cover. We the Living (First Russian Edition) Ayn Rand's classic novel ofRussia translated into Russian. A collector's item ... autographed by the translator, Dimitry Costygin. (542 pp.) $19.95 hard cover. The God of the Machine Isabel Paterson's classic defense of freedom, with a new introduction by Stephen Cox. Autographed by the editor. (366 pp.) $21.95 soft cover. Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic A mind-bending meditation on the new revolution in computer intelligence - and on the nature of science, philosophy, and reality ... autographed by the author, Bart Kosko. (318 pp.) $12.95 soft cover. Freedorn of Informed Choice: The FDA vs Nutrient Supplements A well-informed expose of America's pharmaceutical "fearocracy." The authors' "'split label' proposal makes great r----------------------------,sense." -Milton Friedman ... autographed by the authors, Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw. (126 pp.) $6.95 soft cover. I Yes'Send me the libertarian Bestsellers I have marked below. I understand that each is autographed by its I • author. DI have provided a separate sheet with the names and addresses of the people on my gift list; I please send the books to them, as I have instructed. D Send them to me! I qty amount I I name __ Investment Biker, by Jim Rogers @$25.00 = I __ It Came From Arkansas, edited by R.W. Bradford @$12.95 = address I I -- Crisis Investing for the Rest ofthe '90s, city, state, zip I by Douglas Casey @$22.50 = DI enclose my check (payable to Liberty) I -- We the Living (first Russian Ed.), by Ayn Rand @$19.95 = D Charge my D VISA 0 MasterCard I __ The God ofthe Machine, by Isabel Paterson @$21.95 = I __ Fuzzy Thinking, by Bart Kosko @ $12.95 = signature I I -- Freedom ofInformed Choice, by Pearson & Shaw @ $6.95 = account # I Shipping & Handling ($3.00 per address) expires phone I ~~~ I L. ----------------------------Liberty Bookshelf, P.O. Box 1181, Port T.ow.nsend, WA 98368 -ua 800/854-6991, ext 40 .I January 1995 Inside Liberty Volurne8,Nurnber3 4 Letters Liberty is a two-way street. But no passing. 7 Reflections Liberty's editors eat doughnuts with prostitutes, vote for fictional persons, join the white flight, and toast the health benefits of wine. And still, they are a sober lot. The 1994 Election 15 The Turtle and the Hare-Brains Stephen Cox draws a message from the defeat of Democrats. Neither the Republicans nor their left-leaning opponents will like it. 19 A Crisis of Faith The Republican triumph offers evidence that Americans have lost their faith in government, but haven't yet lost their faith in faith. R. W. Bradford explains. 25 To Vote or Not To Vote Loren E. Lomasky does it on the margin. Features 27 Russo and Revolution Chester Alan Arthur interviews Hollywood heavyweight Aaron Russo about his new Constitution Party: serious political alternative, or another road to nowhere? 34 Free Speech, Blah, Blah Brian Taylor palavers with freedom's fair-weather friends on the Right. 37 Back to Work Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E Gallaway show why this century's obsession with "unemployment" worked so poorly. 43 I'll Take Manhattan Richard Kostelanetz espies utopia in the world's greatest metropolis. 45 Memoirs of a Soviet Dissident (in Canada) You don't have to live in a totalitarian society to feel the effects of ideological oppression, as Pierre Lemieux has learned. 52 Minds, Drugs, and the State Sandy Shaw defends the science of psychopharmacology. Seth Farber reiterates his warning: institutional psychiatry and its allied drug pushers are a grave threat to liberty. Reviews 54 Not to the Swift, But to the Smart Jane S. Shaw makes sense of The Bell Curve, America's most controversial book. Leland B. Yeager looks at the science upon which it either stands or falls. 60 Requiem for Government Schools Critics of government schooling are easy to come by. Jesse Walker sets the standard for grading their proposals. 62 Farce and Madness Ronald F. Lipp finds that our decadent society is not only turning ugly, it is turning and turning in the widening gyre. 64 Radio Ga-Ga Phil Leggiere listens to a medium and its messages. 65 Booknotes on dead anarchists, white racists, wise economists, foolish newspapermen, and other specimens of Homo sapiens sapiens. ~:.. ?' 67 Classified Advertisements The free market, at 50~ a word. 69 Notes on Contributors The authors sans muses. 70 Terra Incognita Gravity pulls at even the lightest of elements. ~::~995 [ Let t ers Jto treat living things as more ...:::::===============================::::: idea,means.despiteThis isBradford'snot reallyuncalled-fora revolutionarybe- littlement of diZerega as some sort of mo­ Anything Else accord legitimacy to the concerns and principles of the deep ecologists." Even ral cripple who must have "a difficult Would Be Uncivilized ignoring deep ecologists' animal rights enough time in the world without my I didn't comment on Gus diZerega's arguments, as diZerega claims to do, this getting on his case." "Deep Ecology Meets the Market" (No­ still leaves us with the movement's moral Although Bradford may find this vember 1994) prior to R..W. Bradford's re­ equalization of human and non-human hard to swallow, even the men and wom­ sponse ("The Market Meets Deep Ecolo­ life. DiZerega's"rejection of the despotic en who raise dumb cows for food rarely gy," December 1994) because I see notion of property rights" and his will­ envision their domestic wards in the ex­ responsible stewardship of resources as a ploitative.light of pure means. To many legitimate concern, whether or not own­ ingness to allow a full-scale "wartime" assault on environmental problems "in of them, hvestock-raising circumscribes a ership is private. It's just another facet of an emergency" are evidence enough that culture of caring and stewardship, one the self-control libertarianism requires. that invariably ends in death but which DiZerega simply opposes the right­ there can be no synthesis between human rights and government intervention on until that moment is constrained by a wing "it's mine, all mine, to slash and powerful ethic of love and responsibility. burn, tee-hee" approach that says it's behalf of non-human rights. DiZerega also tries to synthesize the No rancher I know who is worthy of the okay to cut down all the old growth in name has ever reduced the human­ the northern hemisphere to make dispos­ individual and society with the hoariest, most hackneyed objection to individual­ animal relation to one of pure means. able chopsticks, and it's okay to hunt Bradford may be unwilling to ac­ wildlife to extinction so recreational ism: "individuals are members of socie­ ties." The real question is whether this knowledge human responsibility in the hunters can get their kicks. This cavalier natural world, but libertarian-minded readiness to destroy the irreplaceable is nurturing social cradle exists to enslave the individual. DiZerega seems to think people ~ho see nature in a different light antisocial, whether or not you own it. should Inundate the pages of Liberty with Some things transcend property rights. that's okay - in an emergency, of course. DiZerega even offers a synthesis of principled arguments to the contrary. Raising and harvesting plants and an­ Karl Hess, Jr. Imals for food and clothing can be done self-interest and altruism: since humans Las Cruces, N.M. ~umanely, much as diZerega may doubt are capable of imagining their long-term It. Humans are part of the food chain, af­ self-interest, they act onthe basis of some­ The Despotic Editor ter all, and these activities are no more onewho"does not exist yet," and since R.W. Bradford's criticism mostly ig­ than organized hunting and gathering. "concern for others and concern for our nores ~y ~rguments, except to complain future self are two sides of the same coin" ~u~ ~here's always a line that separates fo~ that I dIdn t spend enough time making CIVIlIzed ways of meeting human needs one should embrace altruism not only them. I wrote my piece to fit the general from barbarism and savagery, and prop­ humans, but for animals as well! Again, length of Liberty articles, so this seems a erty rights don't exempt anyone from the lust for synthesis creates a muddle, as bit petty. IfBradford had wanted me to toeing that line. when diZerega discerns "theecological elaborate a point, all he needed to do was I didn't object to diZerega's article be­ equivalent ofcapital consumption" or dis­ ask. .But he admits he only wanted to cau~e I agree with him in theory: proper­ c.overs that the"ecological community, ~ra,:" fire by publishing my piece.
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