From time to time, the Lima newspapers publish stories about such and such a community’s having “invaded” properties of latifundists or miners. The informed reader knows what is happening. Disgusted with being dispossessed, lacking official justice, the Indians have decided to take through their own efforts what has always belonged to them.
– Sebastian Salazar Bondy, Whither Latin America
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September 4th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 He whose desires have been throttled, This passage, to me, is about a free cosmopolitan, freed from imposed ties, much of his life seemingly empty but in fact intellectualised and indeed virtualized, his actions seemingly random to those who look on from outside but, like the birds, actually quite purposeful September 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
Continental intellectuals see analytical thinking as something to be endured, but certainly not courted! September 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
No matter how one measures welfare, there’s more of it where governments refrain from causing poverty by curtailing markets September 1st, 2002 | Comments are closed
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter August 31st, 2002 | Comments are closed
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. August 30th, 2002 | Comments are closed
They preach that if you see a man flogging a woman to death you must not hit him. August 29th, 2002 | Comments are closed
August 28th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. August 27th, 2002 | Comments are closed
August 26th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
On this day in 1814, following the defeat of US Army and Marines defending the capital at Bladensburg, the British military occupied Washington DC, burning most major government buildings. Perhaps it is time for a really realistic historical re-enactment, starting with 1111 Constitution Avenue, with US taxpayers wearing the Red Coats this time… August 24th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. August 24th, 2002 | Comments are closed
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