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The Ring of Free Trade?

Jesse Walker | 1.2.2003 2:23 AM

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Everyone wants a piece of Tolkien. The Christians. The libertarians. And now the anti-globalization left.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Steve   23 years ago

    And all this time, I thought the Trilogy was an entertaining group of books. I guess we find what we're looking for.

    What? Star Wars isn't "just a movie"?!?!

  2. Anonymous   23 years ago

    I doubt very much that the Old Professor would appreciate being co-opted by the Left.

  3. pchuck   23 years ago

    But isn't the Lord of the Rings trilogy an example of globalism? It is Western mass entertainment exported to the world.

  4. Franklin Harris   23 years ago

    Well, Tolkien was an agrarian anarcho-monarchist, so maybe my paleolibertarian pals have a case. They have a better argument here than they do with the "Star Wars" films, the politics of which are muddled at best.

  5. Commodore Loony   23 years ago

    Just don't say Star Trek isn't reflective of reality or they'll cut your tribbles off.

  6. Anonymous   23 years ago

    maybe the anti-globbies can protest and have teach-ins about wizard-kabob. that is really going to suck.

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