30 Years Ago in Reason

October 1977

From the October 2007 issue

“Jeremy Rifkin’s People’s Business Commission invaded a National Academy of Sciences forum on recombinant DNA last March chanting, ‘We shall not be cloned.’ ”
—Robert Poole Jr., “The Scientists’ Faustian Bargain”

“Some Washington wags call the neutron bomb ‘the Republican bomb’; it destroys people, not property.”
—Bill Birmingham, “Brickbats”

“It is unconscionably patronizing to say that the peoples of poor countries desperately want material progress but cannot achieve it without alms or gifts from us.”
—P.T. Bauer, “Foreign Aid Hasn’t Worked…and It Never Will”

“Demand is apparently unaffected by [energy] prices, but it is affected by taxes. Besides, with higher prices we would only get more energy, while with higher taxes we could get more government. This is a plan to solve the chronic shortage of government.”
—Alan Reynolds, “The War on Energy”

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