25 Years Ago in Reason

"It is not literally true that Richard Nixon is a monster, but it is metaphorically true; and we can communicate a good deal of truth about Nixon's character by making the statement that he is a monster, which is a lie. So it is too with those longer, 'elaborately circumstantial lies' we call novels."

--Jeff Riggenbach, "Ursula LeGuin: Novelist"

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"Critics treat Nozick almost as though he were the only living libertarian."

--J. Charles King, "Nozick Under Fire"

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"Nothing could be better calculated to trigger the defenses of the bureaucratic monopolists in public education than the implicit claim of the voucher system that the consumer has a better sense of his own self-interest than the provider."

--E.G. West, "Challenging the Public School
Monopoly"

"It was once fashionable to talk about the sf 'ghetto' from which any writer with literary talent--or, at any rate, literary pretensions--longed to escape. Nowadays the 'ghetto' constitutes the largest part of the paperback market."

--John J. Pierce, "Science Fiction Comes of Age"