Censorship and the Arts

I have this recurring fantasy: a caveman discovers that he can produce drawings of the animals he hunts on the walls of his cave. Excited by the possibilities of his art, energized by the creative act, he produces a drawing–only to have it rubbed angrily off the cave wall by someone in his tribe who declares that the depiction of animal…
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Show Me The Money

Money talks–and politicians listen. (Even the President of the United States, who is evidently running a very expensive hotel.) Campaign costs have gone from astronomical to utterly ridiculous; in 1996, some Senate candidates spent over ten million…
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Abusing Power

David Boaz is Vice-President of the Cato Institute. He has just written a book: Libertarianism, A Primer; in it, he makes a scholarly and persuasive case for a market-driven, consensual society in which government plays a very limited, albeit…
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