-- "The New Cold War," Nick Gillespie
March 2002
The first breath of cultural freedom that Afghans had enjoyed since 1995 was suffused with the stuff of commercially generated popular culture. The people seemed delighted to be able to look like they wanted to, listen to what they wanted to, watch what they wanted to, and generally enjoy themselves again. Who could complain about Afghans' filling their lives with pleasure after being coerced for years to adhere to a harshly enforced ascetic code?
The West's liberal, anti-materialist critics, that's who.
-- "In Praise of Vulgarity," Charles Paul Freund
June 2002
The real danger we face today is not that new biological technologies will occasionally cause injury but that opponents will use vague, abstract threats to... delay the medical advances growing out of today's basic research. If, out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes...there would be real victims: present and future sufferers from those diseases.
-- "The Clone Wars: A Reason Online Debate," Gregory Stock
August/September 2002
Compared to previous generations, today's Americans are starting work later in life, spending less time on chores at home, and living longer after retirement. All told, 70 percent of a typical American's waking lifetime hours are available for leisure, up from 55 percent in 1950.
-- "Off the Books," W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm
October 2002
The open-ended nature of the struggle against it means that the war on terrorism, unlike conventional wars, cannot be viewed as a passing emergency.
That fact has important implications for the debate about how much liberty we should give up so the government can fight terrorism more effectively. Since there's no way of knowing when the war is over -- no territory to occupy, no surrender to accept -- any sacrifices we make are likely to be permanent.
-- "The Forever War," Jacob Sullum
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