30 Years Ago in Reason
* "We are trapped in the middle of a street war between two breeds of pigs, the police and the New Left."
—"Animal Farm 1970," by Lanny Friedlander
* "Nothing is more ill-suited for smashing the state than a riot. The state co-opts riots; they are its rationale."
—"Animal Farm 1970," by Lanny Friedlander
* "There is…good reason to believe that early rulers sought and maintained a monopoly in [mail] service because they feared the ready communication of anxiety and popular discontent about their political regimes. Thus, to suspend the legal traffic in private letters was a useful political device–common to all dictatorships–to suppress the circulation of political ferment."
—"Neither sleet, nor…s(forget it)," by D.T. Armentano
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