Child Torture June 2000 $4.00 in America "It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose Liberty." - Francis Bacon Modern Editions ofClassic Works for Readers Today DAVID HUME Prophet ofthe Counter-revolution Second Edition By Laurence L. Bongie Foreword by Donald Livingston hough usually Edmund .Burke is identified as the first to articulate the principles of a T modern conservative political tradition, arguably he was preceded by a Scotsman who is better known for espousing a brilliant concept of skepticism. As Laurence Bongie notes, lIDavid Hume was undoubtedly the eighteenth-century British writer whose works were mostwidely known and acclaimed on the Continent during the later Enlightenment period. Hume's impact [in France] was of undeniable importance, greater even for a time than the related influence of Burke, although it represents a contribution to French counter-revolutionary thought which, unlike that of Burke, has been almost totally ignored by historians to this day." The bulk of Bongie's work consists of the writings of French readers of Hume who were confronted, first, by the ideology of human perfection and, finally, by the actual terrors of the French Revolution. Offered in French in the original edition of David Hume published by Oxford University Press in 1965, these vitally important writings have been translated by the author into English for the Liberty Fund second edition. In his foreword, Donald Livingston observes that IIlf conservatism is taken to be an intellectual critique of the first attempt at modern total revolution, then the first such event was not the French but the Puritan revolution, and the first systematic critique of this sort of act was given by Hume." Hardcover $18.00 0-86597-208-7 Paperback $10.00 0-86597-209-5 (Indiana residents add 5% sales tax) HISTORY AS THE STORY OF LIBERTY By Benedetto Croce Translated by Sylvia Sprigge Foreword by Claes G. Ryn enedetto Croce (1866-1952) is perhaps best known as the author, in 1902, ofAesthetics, Ba work of enduring influence. History as the Story ofLiberty was written in 1938 when the Western world had succumbed to the notion that history is a creature of blind force. A reviewer at the time noted the importance of Croce's belief that lithe central trend in the evolution of man is the unfolding of new potentialities, and that the task of the historian is to discover and emphasize this trend: the story of liberty." As Croce himself writes, IIEven in the darkest and crassest times liberty trembles in the lines of poets and affirms itself in the pages of thinkers and burns, solitary and magnificent, in some men who cannot be assimilated by the world around them." The first edition in English of History as the Story ofLiberty appeared in London in 1941. The new Liberty Fund edition includes modest improvements to the translation by Folke Leander and arranged by Claes Ryn. Preface, foreword, index. Hardcover $17.00 0-86597-268-0 Paperback $ 9.00 0-86597-269-9 (Indiana residents add 5% sales tax) Call 800-955-8335· LibertY Funma. We pay Fax 317-579-6060 -- shipping on or write: prepaid orders. 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite #300, Dept. S42K, Indianapolis, IN 46250-1684 Explore Liberty Fund's catalogue on the World Wide Web at www.libertyfund.org June 2000 Liberty Inside Liberty Volume 14, Number 6 R.W. Bradford 4 Letters A bully pulpit indeed. StephenCox 7 Reflections Liberty's editors take stock in hysteria, take note of good John Hospers and evil in England, take aim at mis-named "liberals," take a look at JaneS.Shaw Al Gore's grades ... senior editors Brien Bartels David Boaz Features Alan Bock Douglas Casey 17 A Sage at Eighty R. W. Bradford celebrates the ninth decade of Eric D. Dixon Thomas Szasz. Brian Doherty David Friedman 19 Hillary, Newt, and Elian Gene Healy explains why children rights' J. Orlin Grabbe activist Hillary Clinton wants to send little Elian back to his father and Bettina Bien Greaves parents' rights advocate Newt Gingrich does not ... and why the case Leon T.Hadar is such a difficult one. Gene Healy Robert Higgs 23 The Drug Czar Takes a Hit Paul Rako takes a close look at Drug Bill Kauffman War Chief Barry McCaffrey's case against drug legalization. David Kopel Bart Kosko 29 The Messy Business of Rating Congress In baseball, you can't Richard Kostelanetz tell the players without a scorecard. In Congress, J. Bishop Grewell Loren E. Lomasky explains, you can't tell the players with a scorecard. Sarah McCarthy Wendy McElroy 32 Plagiarism on the Nile George Hollenback examines the Peter McWilliams Afrocentrist claim that the Greeks stole their mathematics from black Robert H. Nelson Egyptians. Randal O'Toole RossOverbeek 35 Childhood Isn't a Bowl of Cherries Psychologist Dolores Durk Pearson Puterbaugh observes parents tying up their kids, force-feeding them, Dyanne Petersen and drugging them, and wonders: what will these kids be like when Ralph.Raico they grow up? Bruce Ramsey Scott J. Reid 37 Back Where You Came From A bureaucrat learns how the other Sheldon Richman half lives. A short story by Scott Gossard. Sandy Shaw Fred L. Smith, Jr. Thomas S. Szasz Reviews Leland B. Yeager contributing editor$ 41 A Dumber Shade of Green? Jane Shaw examines a conservative Kathleen Bradford manifesto on environmentalism. copy editor 43 The Origin and Consequences of the First World War S.H. Chambers Martin Tyrrell takes a close look at a new book on the war that gave us RexF.May cartoonists/illustrators the triumph of communism and naziism. Martin M. Solomon 46 Straight Shooting Reference This new gun encyclopedia isn't Clark Stooksbury perfect, but it's full of useful information, opines Brien Bartels. assistant editors Jon Kalb 47 Thieves Take, Minds Make Bettina Bien Greaves looks at a new Jim Switz book on the relationship of ideas to rights. computer consultants Peter Gillen editorial intern Sandra White 54 Notes on Contributors Who we are. circulation 54 The real world, really. Caroline Evanger Terra Incognita circulation ~============:::] How to [-====================================Le=========tt=======er=======s Subscribe A Simple Explanation but by the moral and political I hate to disappoint Jerome Tuccille, meltdown of Imperial Rome). but I don't have a candlelit shrine to Christianity affirms the basic postulates to Ronald Reagan in my house. Like most whichmake scientific inquiry possible, libertarians, I have a healthy skepticism such as the existence of a rational, towards politicians. In fact, one joke I objective reality and the possibility of II LibertYJl like to tell is that my favorite spectator human understanding of it (many, if sport is "Pile on the president! Pile on not most, pioneers of science were the president!" But I am very careful believers). And Christianity promotes Liberty takes individual not to specify which president. liberty in theory (and led to it in Nor were my motives for reviewing practice) by insisting on a higher freedom seriously ... and It Still Begins With Ayn Rand "diaboli­ God-given basis for the unalienable the status quo with more cal." I have a deep interest in libertarian rights of man. Indeed, in the final than one grain of salt! history and greatly enjoyed It Usually analysis, I believe this is the only sure Begins With Ayn Rand when I read it a bulwark for liberty. Every issue of Liberty brings few years ago. So when I heard about a It is, of course, true that many you news you can't miss, sequel, I asked to review it. 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