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Liberty Magazine April 2001.Pdf Mime Type Time to Repeal Women's. April 2001 $4.00 Suffrage? _.rW7>.c.l-.r', , 11 _ John Ray The War on the American Dream Urban planners claim Americans drive too much 7htJ~aI71$"~i1t, and our large yards waste too much land. Many cities ...Aufol77olJile are deliberately increasing con­ gestion to force more people to ride transit and passing strict land-use laws to force more people to live in apart­ ments or homes with tiny yards. The planners call this smartgrowth. We call it coercive central planning. Its goal is nothing less than the end ofthe American dream of mobility and free­ dom ofchoice in housing. How Smart Growth Will Ifyou live in a city, town, or suburb, A then smart growth is coming to you. Harm --rJ,e --VanlShi!!.9 -AufomDhile and 1\/ / •.••• /i OM"~h~~~~m"rym~~~·~~~~~~~~~_III_ zine contributing editor Randal O'Toole, tells The laugh is on the taxpayers as smart-growth planners encourage why smart growth threatens your liberty and more cities to build expensive but little-used light-rail lines. how you can fight it. Published by the Thoreau Institute, the 545-page book is just "The most thorough and useful $14.95 plus $4 shipping in the u.s. Order analysis of the issue of urban sprawl." your copy today using the form below! Steven Hayward, ------------------, Pacific Research Institute o Yes! Please send me The Vanishing Automo- I bile for just $14.95 plus $4 shipping. I "O'Toole is a compelling writer, his I work meaty, persuasive, and inform­ Name ------------- I ative. It is a mix of analysis, data I presentation and story-telling-and he Address ------------ I has plenty of good stories to tell." I City State Zip I Peter Samuel, Toll Roads Newsletter Make check payable to The Thoreau Institute and mail to I R O. Box 1590, Bandon, OR 97411. For more inftrma- I "A masterful piece." tion, visit the Thoreau Institute's web site at www.ti.org. I Wendell Cox, publicpurpose.com Liberty April 2001 Inside Liberty Volume 15, Number 4 R.W. Bradford editor & publisher Stephen Cox 4 letters Our readers get the first word. John Hospers 7 Reflections We engage in psychological warfare, investigate the interna­ JaneS. Shaw tional crime scene, throwaway our trigger locks, ventilate the White House, senior editors and get caught in a time warp. Brien Bartels David Boaz Alan Bock Bill Clinton: A Celebration Douglas Casey Bill Clinton is a liar, thief, and sociopath. He was also a wonderful Andrew Chamberlain president. Liberty's editors look back fondly on the Clinton years. Eric D. Dixon Brian Doherty 23 The Unimportance of Being President by R.W. Bradford David Friedman 27 Tribute to an Accidental Libertarian by William E. Merritt J. arlin Grabbe Bettina Bien Greaves 29 The Embodiment of Entitlement by Stephen Cox Leon T. Hadar Gene Healy 31 Good-bye to the Black Helicopters and All That by Sarah J. Robert Higgs McCarthy Bill Kauffman Dave Kopel Bart·Kosko Features Richard Kostelanetz Samuel Silver tells how America would Loren E. Lomasky 35 Robbing Peter to Pay Mary Sarah McCarthy be different if women did not have the right to vote. WendyMcElroy 37 Uruguay Kicks the Socialist Habit When the "Switzerland of William E. Merritt South America" became a welfare state, its economy crumbled. Thomas S. Robert H. Nelson Garlinghouse describes Uruguayfs descent to socialism, and its recovery. Randal O'Toole Ross Overbeek 39 The Dark Side of Israel Why should Americans support a socialist, Durk Pearson racist, theocratic state? Imad-ad-DeanAhmad looks for an answer. Dyanne Petersen 41 What the Second Amendment Means Contrary to what some Ralph Raico people believe, argues Dave Kopel, the Second Amendment means exactly Bruce Ramsey what it says. Scott J. Reid Sheldon Richman 43 The Abortion Conundrum Abortion isn't pretty, Sarah]. McCarthy Timothy Sandefur argues, but it isn't always morally reprehensible either. Sandy Shaw Tim Slagle 45 Football Stadiums, Swimming Pools, and the Triumph of Fred L. Smith, Jr. the left Pollsters and pundits claim that the country is becoming more Martin M. Solomon and more hostile to government. They are wrong, argues Robert Festa. Clark Stooksbury 47 Divided We Stand Wesley A. Riddle makes the case that the real Thomas S. Szasz meaning of federalism is that we should think locally, and act locally. Martin Morse Wooster Leland B. Yeager contributing editors Reviews Kathleen Bradford 49 The Genome Wars The race to decode the human genome was managing editor between a private company and a government project. Timothy Sandefur John Bergstrom takes a look at the runners' stats. S.H. Chambers RexF.May 51 liberty, Tradition, and Morality Edward Feser takes a close look at cartoonists/illustrators Jan Narveson's defense of libertarian ethics. Jon Kalb Jim Switz 55 The Podhoretz Problem Jeff Riggenbach ponders why he likes the computer consultants writing - but not the politics -- of neo-con guru Norman Podhoretz. John Haywood 59 Not All that Jazz Richard Kostelanetz looks at the pop PBS Elizabeth Merritt documentary on America's indigenous art. Eric Raetz Shannon Seibert editorial assistants Caroline Evangel 57 Notes on Contributors 63 Terra Incognita assistant publisher ,~=-===================================================================================::::-- inconsistent with arguing, for example, that the First Amendment protects [L====================L====e====t====te====r====s======================:::::] business-related speech, not just politi­ cal speech, and simultaneously believ­ Lusting for Substance incorrect and historically flawed. ing that one's right to freedonl of I was mystified at the relevance of Consider a well-known anarchist Lysander Spooner. One of Spoon~r's speech is not grounded in the existence the article "How to Succeed with of that amendment ... that such a natu­ Wonlen" (February). This may have great works is The'Constitution of No Authority #6, which argues the U.S. ral right is independent of governmen­ belonged in a men's magazine, but I do tal recognition. not understand its relevance to a jour­ Constitution is not binding on anyone who did not sign it. Yet, another of Would Formaini argue that atheists nal of libertarian thought. This follows are unable to write illuminating ecu­ your publishing of a piece about a Spooner's great works (and a much more extensive one) is The Unconsti­ menical exegesis, that pointing out the whorehouse in Idaho, against which detailed flaws in Aquinas's Five Ways another reader wrote objecting. tutionality of Slavery. This is a massive legal analysis that subtly and substan­ is only for those who believe there's a Moreover, I was dismayed at the sixth? Such a position flies in the face of repeated use of bad language, includ­ tively argues the U.S. Constitution does not sanction slavery, despite several many works of profound scholarship. ing blasphemy, in the latest piece. So, too, profound work in politics Believe it or not, such language does clauses that certainly seem to accept that peculiar institution. Does Formaini would be lost if Formaini were success­ offend sonle people, even in the third ful in restricting critiques on govern­ nlillenniulll. That a writer must resort think Spooner disingenuous? Should Spooner, instead of arguing the ment only to those who believe in to such language displays a lack of government. clear thinking or a rather narrow Constitution did not allow slavery, sim­ ply have published an admittedly Ross Levatter vocabulary. De Pere, Wisc. Being against government censor­ much thinner text titled The Irrelevance of the Constitutionality of Slavery? Does s.hip does not mean an editor must pub­ Formaini replies: I see almost nothing of lIsh whatever is submitted. Being a Formaini really think Spooner's exten­ sive discussion of proper methodology my article's principal theme in Ross libertarian does not nlean we cannot in constitutional interpretation, track­ Levatter's letter. I would deny no one edit objectionable items. Publishing ing principles of legal analysis from the the right to argue anything, and noth­ such lllaterial is not neutral. It actually Magna Carta forward, is of no value ing in my article states otherwise. All I lowers the overall tone of your journal sinlply because Spooner also believed asked for was a basic honesty from and dinlinishes its relevance and the Constitution is not binding? those with whom I am conversing or esteenl in the minds of, at least, some There is nothing here not explained debating, either directly, or in print. Is readers. by Spooner's concluding passage to No the point of Levatter's letter to inform Adrian Day Treason: "The writer thinks it proper to me that I ask too much, or that I had no Annapolis, Md. say that ... the government has been right to ask in the first place? And Formainian Folly made in practice a very widely, and finally, I confess that I do not see his Bob Formaini ("The Unacknow­ almost wholly, different thing from detailed textual analysis of Spooner's ledged Premise," February) thinks what the Constitution itself purports to view of the U.S. Constitution as having anarchists argue unfairly. Not acknowl­ authorize. He has heretofore written anything whatsoever to do with the edging their anarchism, they argue much, and could write much more, to main point I tried to raise. But then, against specific government actions, prove that such is the truth. But perhaps I am deficiently postmodern? inlplying they prefer alternative gov­ whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain A Questionable Trinity ernment acts, or less extensive govern­ I take issue to Timothy Sandefur's Inent; yet what they really want is no - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has claim ("Why Conservatives Oppose government.
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