Crackdo-wn on the Electronic October 1993 Vol. 7, No.1 $4.00 Frontier ''And best beloved ofbest men, Liberty. ~'-Swinburne o Special Purchase Du1tch Gold Duca1ts at 50% below catalog value! The Netherlands Ducats that we offer have some very special Kingdom ofthe Netherlands. One ofthe first actions ofthe qualities: newly independent kingdom was to renew the minting ofits tra­ • The Dutch Ducat has a beautiful design dating back more ditional gold coin, the Ducat. than 400 years. Beginning in 1814 and for more than a century, the Ut­ • It adheres to the ancient Ducat standard, which was first trecht Mint issued gold adhering to the ancient Ducat standard, used in 1280 A.D. containing 3.5 grams of.986 fine gold. 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We guarantee your satisfac­ phone confirmation # I tion: you may return the coins within 15 days ofyour receipt Liberty Coin Service for a full refund, with no questions asked. I 300 Frandor Avenue, Lansing, MI 48912 I L --------------1-800-321-1542 • 1-800-933-4720 (Michigan) ..I October 1993 Inside Liberty Volume 7, Number 1 4 Letters Liberty's readers are a verbose lot. Look at all the letters we got! 7 Reflections Liberty's editors bury athletes, shoot cash into space, step into the planners' confessional, and celebrate those who outwit the Rubbing Red Hand. 13 Medianotes Liberty's editors audit other media. Features 15 The Real Health Care Crisis Hillary Rodham Clinton's cure for the medical care system is worse than the disease, and the conservative alternative isn't muchbetter. R. W. Bradford prescribes a different sort of therapy. 19 A Victory for Justice Stefan B. Herpel explains the Supreme Court's hesitant steps back toward respecting the Bill of Rights. 23 Old-Growth Government The culture ofWashington is ruining the silviculture ofthe nation. Randal O'Toole shows how and why. 25 White Liberals Can Jump William Moulton reports from the campus of Michigan State University, where PC power is being exercised for its own sake. 30 The Significance of Isabel Paterson Fifty years ago, Isabel Paterson wrote a classic libertarian polemic, The God ofthe Machine. Stephen Cox sheds some new light on this leading star of the individualist revival. 39 A Paterson Collection The world according to Isabel Paterson, master aphorist. 42 The Oldest Permanent Floating Anarchy in Salt Lake The Libertarian Party met in Salt Lake City to consider its future, celebrate the present, and forget its past. Chester Alan Arthur files a report from the Beehive State. 47 How I Walked into the Michigan House Political success is possible - even if you're a libertarian. Greg Kaza writes from personal experience. 49 Reindustrialization Redux Christopher Thomas Freeburn watches big government pick the economic losers. Welcome to the world of "industrial policy." 51 Mapping Maturity Put away your Cosmo quiz; Robert F. Tinney has all the questions you need. Reviews 55 No Place Like Cyberspace Brian Doherty explores the weird world evolving around computers, and the cops and robbers who call the place home. 57 After Liberalism ... Liberalism Leland Yeager looks behind John Gray's "post-liberalism," and finds yet another reasonable man with unreasonable expectations. 60 Pucker or Perish Richard Kostelanetz figures out what the literary crowdis up to in this age of subsidy and less-than-meets-the-eye journalism. 61 Booknotes Welfare mothers in a bind, businessmen unbound, economists bound and gagged, and garbage liberated. Departments 66 Index to Uberty Articles, Reflections, and Reviews from Volume 6. 65 Classified Ads The market can't equilibrate ifyou don't read this. 69 Notes on Contributors Who we are and whywe fight. 70 Terra Incognita Signs of the endtimes, or just the usual booboisie stupidity? Lett ers J] cultural anthropologist). A coup:~ 1993 [..:::=======================================================~ whichyears back,producesAPRMarketplace,(American PublicanotherRadio,pro- gram featured on most NPR stations) Pepsi Degeneration in governmental intrusion into people's private lives through a multi-billion dol­ asked me to be a regular commentator on Your humorous portrayal of Pepsi­ matters relating to business and econom­ Cola's loss of Kashrut approval is off the lar "War on Drugs" and a mindless cru­ sade against "pornography") were free­ ics. When I sent in a few sample com­ mark (Terra Incognita, August 1993). ments - 90 seconds on why "hostile" Pepsi-Cola wished to have the broadest market policies. Thanks to Ronald Reagan, we now have legions ofdunder­ takeovers are often friendly to stockhold­ possible market for its product and there­ ers and customers -I was asked to make fore obtained Kashrut approval by the heads coast to coast proclaiming that "we've tried the free market and it didn't my comments less opinionated. I tried to more rigorous licensing authority, the re­ tone down the style but kept the content ligious court, or Beis Din Tzedek (B'Datz) work." But never mind all this, Boaz tells us; in focus - observations on how most of the Eida Chareidis ofJerusalem. The people get bad analysis about what ails ~ida Chareidis is a religious community think of the multitudes of superbly quot­ able bon mots for which Reagan was re­ our economy. The offer was rescinded. mJerusalem established during the Heaven help it if public radio featured British Mandate precisely to be complete­ sponsible during the years ofhis presidency. It was Ronald Reagan, Boaz someone who does not share the sophisti­ ly independent of the government. cated political and economic philosophy No one forced Pepsi to seek this high reminds us, who said, "There you go again." And was it also Reagan who gave of Daniel Schorr. level of Kashrut certification. It was also Tibor R. Machan their choice to engage in marketing and us such immortal lines as "So's your old Auburn, Ala. promotional practices such as sabbath vi­ man" and "It takes one to know one"? olations, etc., which are totally abhorrent Elsewhere in his review, Boaz la­ Lies, Damn Lies, and Book to those who voluntarily subscribe to the ments the failure of Bartlett's to acknowl­ ege Karl Hess as the actual author of Reviews standards of the B'Datz. ''Lies, Damn Lies, and AIDS Libertarians support the voluntary Barry Goldwater's "famous 'extremism' quotation." But surely he knows that Research" by Brian Doherty is just one creation of extra-governmental communi­ more article playing down the most dan­ ties and judicial systems whose authority anything Ronald Reagan ever said that is legitimately quotable was actually writ­ gerous epidemic ever to face our nation. is binding without the monopoly of coer­ The statement, "The human immunodefi­ cive force. It does not behoove a publica­ ten by someone like Peggy Noonan, Pat Buchanan, or Dana Rohrabacher. So why, ciency virus (HIV), commonly under­ tion of Liberty's standards to make light stood to be the cause of the range of of an organization which has been a para­ pray tell, should Reagan's name ever be allowed to deface any edition of Bartlett's diseases we call AIDS, may in fact be no digmatic example of such voluntary or­ more than a cofactor, if that" characteriz­ ganization for the last 60 years.