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In “Serve
the (Old) People” (page 18), Paul Thornton rants about the scourge
of compulsory “national service,” an idea rearing its ugly head
again. Thornton, 26, says the issue boils down to a war of the old
vs. the young: “The idea of forcing people into labor only sounds
bad when you’re the one doing the labor.” An assistant articles
editor for the Los Angeles Times editorial page, Thornton
lives north of L.A. in Glendale, California, and blogs at
opinion.latimes.com. In his youth he “did a fair amount of
community service and did it very grudgingly.”
“Defense
spending is one of the things that get my blood going these days,”
says economist Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the
Mercatus Center. In “The Trillion-Dollar War” (page 20), she tracks
the ballooning costs of supplemental spending bills. Everyone has
his finger in the pie, says de Rugy, but the worst offender is the
Pentagon. “Even if the war stops tomorrow—which it won’t—we will
have emergency bills for a long time,” she says, “because the
Pentagon has figured out that they are the best way to get weapons
and tanks and all sorts of toys without having to cut waste
elsewhere.”
Dan Hayes,
an assistant producer at reason.tv, regularly films features for
Reason’s new video website. Among them: Matt Welch’s
interview with the filmmaker James Tusty, an edited transcript of
which appears on page 13. Tusty’s documentary The Singing
Revolution tells how Estonians pushed back against Soviet
oppression with rock concerts and song festivals. Before coming to
Reason, Hayes, 24, filmed and edited Brothers in
Song, a documentary about a men’s choir at his alma mater,
Miami University of Ohio. “It takes a bunch of individuals
coordinating an effort to get a result bigger than themselves,” he
says. “In The Singing Revolution that was to overthrow communism.
For glee club, the stakes weren’t as high. But it was still a very
moving experience.”
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