While I have some quibbles with the rest of this post, this is actually a very strong point: One point of dispute, though, is that to me the idea of state committed to neutral and effective administration of justice around laissez faire lines seems like an illusion. The alternative to reasonably effective democratic institutions and […]

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So, I was way beyond done with these stupid newsletters, but some people—mindbogglingly, and contra Ron Paul’s own assessment—seem determined to assert that really they’re not so very racist at all, if only placed in the proper “context.” This is both plainly false and a little galling. It strikes me that the best “context” is […]

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Since Perry de Havilland is trotting out the “Spanish capitulation” meme again, I may as well link the Reason column I wrote in the wake of the 2004 elections in Spain.

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Well, I’m more than ready to move on from the topic of Ron Paul and old newsletters, but I suppose I ought to say something about this bit of flailing from Justin Raimondo. Perhaps I shouldn’t, because obviously some folks have decided to try very, very hard to frame our article, and the newsletter kerfuffle […]

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Some enterprising cub reporter at the Ron Paul Forums has determined, through painstaking research, that journalists covering the same area will occasionally notify each other of stories they’re working on. This appears to have been patched together through elaborate Facebook mapping, though might have easier been accomplished by shooting one of us an e-mail. Yes, […]

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So, I’m getting plenty of nice feedback about Dave and my Reason piece about the Paul newsletters, but a quick scan of some of the comment threads out there makes clear that we’ve also made a lot of people very, very angry. Interestingly, they’re mostly not taking issue with the specific claims we make, but […]

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Got a piece over at Ars Technica on Mike McConnell’s creepy dream of a perfectly-observed Internet.

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The piece I mentioned the other day is finally up at Reason. Dave Weigel and I decided to try to find out who—if not Ron Paul—was responsible for those newsletters. As it turns out, it was the guy a lot of folks had thought, but the “why” turns out to be more interesting than the […]

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Once again, at Demoracy in America

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