The ballot boxes are the coffins of freedom. We will not take part in the funeral of freedom.
– A text message circulating on Iranian mobile1 phones yesterday
1 = US: cell phone
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February 20th, 2004 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Ah yes, St. Valentine’s Day.  Have fun. February 14th, 2004 | 62 comments - (Comments are closed)
Of course I have sensitivity, you know… I just refuse to use it with my friends February 14th, 2004 | Comments are closed
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? February 13th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn’t be called piracy because it was done by the city government. February 11th, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
February 8th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
State funding of abortions is, however, a completely different matter. The pro-choicers say it’s a matter of choice. Let it stay that way, then, without forcing people who oppose infanticide to fund it. January 30th, 2004 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
There are two possible political morals to this. One is, don’t have schools. Children in large groups behave like troops of baboons. The other is, if you are going to have schools, have discipline. January 15th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
December 26th, 2003 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)
Many of people who loathe Rupert Murdoch and who hate the fact he has been able to buy up the TV rights to so many sporting events, are the same people who have supported the regulation of British media companies which has ensured Murdoch never has to face any effective competition. December 5th, 2003 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
The dumbest idea is to suppose that an inanimate object can turn a noncriminal into a criminal. To believe that guns cause crime is as stupid as believing that hammers and saws cause houses. It is the grossest kind of mindless superstition to suppose that some magical qualities of an inanimate object can overpower the human will. November 13th, 2003 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Over the years it has become apparent to me that to discount the position of others on the basis of their number is democratically sound but morally wrong. It’s this feeling that has brought me, and others like me, to samizdata and to a consideration of libertarianism. October 31st, 2003 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
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The shop windows are filled with endless tacky heart-shaped corporate eye-catchers and the air is filled with cupid’s arrows… and