On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:45:43PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > You need to read my long, long essay in "True Names," then. This is > more widely available than anything I would waste my time doing for > "Body Peircing" or "Skate," even if I wanted to. > > As for writing for "Reason," they haven't asked, and their editorial > focus is increasingly statist. Cf. Cathy Young's quote at the bottom of > this post.
I disagree. I went to a Reason gathering in Washington last Thursday and found the staffers there definitely not statist. But they were Cato-type libertarians. This is not meant to be critical of the Cato Institute. What I mean is that the folks at the Reason event worked at Cato and other groups like IHS, CEI, AEI, and so on -- groups that have adopted a mode of advocacy that is more academic and scholarly than activist. Instead of saying: Fuck big government. They'll say: As decades of scholarly work in the public choice arena has shown, government entitlement programs at the federal level result in continued inefficiencies and rent-seeking. It's a matter of how you say it. I don't know if that crowd is as interested in the edgy kind of state-wrecking disruptive technologies (that will have a greater long-term impact). -Declan