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Pinkerton, who is only 32, a onetime libertarian, explains paradigms in terms of the Ptolemaic and Copernican models of the universe. The mind, in order to explore and solve problems, must operate upon certain models, certain sets of assumptions. For 13 centuries, humankind assumed, as Ptolemy taught, that the sun revolved around the earth. It was a workable paradigm of the universe, in its way, but became the Old Paradigm when Copernicus propounded the New Paradigm that the earth revolved around...
Mike Barnicle's opinion of me is relevant only to the credibility of his factual assertions about me. He has taken every opportunity over the past several years to take cheap shots at me and every other civil libertarian in town...
...than Stanislaw Tyminski, the runner-up in Poland's presidential election last week. One of the few things voters know about him for sure is that he doesn't live in Poland. He makes his home in suburban Toronto, where he owns a computer company and heads the minuscule Libertarian Party of Canada. He won't even promise to move back to Poland if he wins this Sunday's runoff election. He does say he can lift his native land out of its present economic mess. He just won't say how. For good measure, he has said Poland should...
Dershowitz, a high-profile defense attorney and civil libertarian, said in a letter he would ask the council to question nominee Paul Mahoney--now the chief aide to Senate President William M. Bulger--under oath about alleged comments concerning Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate...
Welcome to the Vile Body, an informal collective of youngish (25 to 40) conservative and libertarian intellectuals; liberals need not apply. Anywhere from 20 to 60 or more of these best and rightest meet for cocktails once a month at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, to schmooze, network and, above all, exchange ideas and witticisms. The name of the group, proposed by Metropolitan's writer-director Whit Stillman, echoes the title of a brittle comedy by Evelyn Waugh, an author much admired by many Vile Body regulars. Says Terry Teachout, 34, who writes editorials for the New York...