New at Reason: Radley Balko on the British Artist Who Inadvertently Brought "I, Pencil" to Life

June 24, 2009

This week, a new exhibit called "The Toaster Project" opens at the Royal College of Art in London, England. On his website, artist Thomas Thwaites explains the gist: "I'm trying to build a toaster, from scratch—beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99." But as Senior Editor Radley Balko writes, the basic theme of Thwaites' Toaster Project was first conceived back in 1958 in the brilliant essay "I, Pencil," written by Leonard Read, founder of the libertarian think tank the Foundation for Economic Education.

Read all about it here.