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c o R R e s P o n d e n c e state and church I enjoyed Anne Applebaum’s article on Poland and Russia (“The Fate of Individual Liberty in Post- Communist Europe,” TAS, April 2008). While...
...And those shilling the regime I postulate could (once abortionondemand is ethically passé) argue with good evidence that what they propose would be far less cruel to fetuses than what’s now legal under Roe v. Wade...
...Absent the advantages of such facilities, the great basket of fresh and inexpensive foods we enjoy in our homes every day would be an impossibility...
...it’s abundantly clear that nonsentient human clones could be used to produce many solid organs de novo as well as other tissues suitable for therapeutic implantation...
...Thus the one institution that, as in Poland, could have preserved the concept of a civil society had long been emasculated...
...Furthermore, the technology needed to achieve this capability appears within easy reach...
...He even gets in a gratuitous swipe at sprawl, that ubiquitous enemy of all things bright and beautiful...
...Although your publication does not yet approach Hillary Clinton’s disregard for the truth (I envision her in a Siberian troika pursued by M a y 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 9 F. gWyNPLaINE MaCINTyRE Glasgow, Scotland...
...Hacker says affects my argument, that the profits accruing to largescale food distribution here and in Europe are achieved by externalizing the most important of the industry’s costs, which is the cost of non-biodegradable packaging...
...With vincible ignorance, the author labels supermarkets as the “most conspicuous example” of an industry whose very existence is based on externalizing costs...
...blue Hawaii The American Spectator arrives in America’s Pacific paradise on the “slow boat,” so to speak, making each month’s reading a desynchronized combination of near-history admixed with those weeks-old events that remain newsy...
...The overarching goal of reproductive science has evolved in recent years to become the creation of reliable sources for human spare parts...
...The sprawl which Scruton so maligns and which furnishes shoppers for supermarkets is the happily chosen lifestyle of the overwhelming majority of American families and represents a direct result of the exercise of liberty in property...
...Hacker points out, that the spread of the suburbs and the economy of shopping-mall distribution have resulted from the free choices of c o R R e s P o n d e n c e Ameri can consumers...
...J. ROBERT BROCk HaCkER Lexington, Kentucky Roger Scruton replies: It is certainly true, as Mr...
...Be it free markets or a free press, a general framework of laws is a necessity...
...All that’s needed is money, human egg donors, surrogate mothers, and a legal regime that permits cerebral pithing of otherwise viable “non-human” clones in utero...
...MICHaEL P. RETHMaN Kaneohe, Hawaii wolves...
...Want of customers in the inner city (the most having left for suburbs) rather than BIG GROCERY explains the decline in downtown retailing...
...Neither fears to oppress...
...Hence, in the March issue that arrived in early April, Joseph F. Johnston, Jr.’s review of Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen’s Embryo caught my eye...
...she desperately flings facts and realities overboard in an attempt to survive), I am concerned that niggling inaccuracies are creeping into your pages...
...Bowman’s error is not nearly so serious as the anachronism created by Professor Harold Hill: The Music Man takes place in 1912, and mentions Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang before that gazette was created...
...Applebaum’s article highlights the concept that, while religion should never be driven from the public square, it is always dangerous for religion, or one specific denomination in particular, to become officially intertwined in government...
...Elsewhere in that same issue, James Bowman makes an allusion to one “Julie Taymore...
...Ever since Peter the Great successfully subordinated the Russian Orthodox Church to the state in 1721, the Church remained merely an arm of the Tsarist regime throughout the period of Romanov rule...
...On the other hand, in recent years, Proof Positive I am saddened to discover that your otherwise excellent magazine is sorely in need of a fact-checker...
...It may interest the Aitkens to know that this same cancer of the lachrymal sac, or something very like it, is probably what killed William Shakespeare...
...DR...
...Certainly, reliable sources of human stem cells might help—but recent research has shown stem cells to be potentially dangerous and mostly inadequate for the panoply of envisioned therapeutic needs...
...Roger Scruton’s essay is a retreat from conservatism toward reaction and is unbecoming of a magazine that purposes to defend freedom...
...There is often little difference between the goals of the collectivist and the reactionary...
...There is so much rubbish within the four corners of this article that time nor space permit a thorough cleanup...
...Bowman also cites Professor Harold Hill of The Music Man excoriating some evil publication called Captain Billy’s Whizz-Bang...
...Captain Billy was Wilford H. Fawcett, who served as a captain of artillery in the American Expeditionary Force during World War One (where a whiz-bang, so hyphened, was a type of artillery shell), and in c onsequence Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang was first published as an amateur newsletter during the war against the Kaiser...
...Thanks for a fine magazine...
...But free choices occur within a context, and that context may be created by zoning laws, state subsidies, and corporate strategies over which individual consumers exert no direct control...
...Times change, attitudes change...
...Mr...
...If this is the innovative stage and film director, she rejoices in the e-less surname Taymor...
...fertilization research a few decades ago turned almost entirely on the need to “help poor childless couples have children of their own...
...Scruton seems to be an advocate of both kinds of freedom but just doesn’t quite trust the venal businessman and the unenlightened property owner to use them properly...
...Scruton fails to consider that taxpayer-financed transportation systems are twoway streets, benefiting the consuming public as much as the grocers...
...have thought that goal ethically problematical back then...
...Mr...
...In your March 2008 issue, Florence King mentions someone named “Pearl Mesta...
...And, once society get that far, it’s not much of a stretch to envision political pressure to deem postpartum non- sentient clones as non-humans—thereby allowing for the harvesting of more- matured organs and tissues later on...
...Persecuted to near extinction by Lenin and Stalin, the Church survived thanks to World War II, but again almost as another arm of the Soviet government...
...c o R R e s P o n d e n c e state and church I enjoyed Anne Applebaum’s article on Poland and Russia (“The Fate of Individual Liberty in PostCommunist Europe,” TAS, April 2008...
...How could anyone (especially those callow, insensitive Catholics...
...It is surely possible for a conservative to recognize that a proposition isn’t false just because Al Gore believes it...
...In fact, that distinguished journal spelled its name somewhat differently: Whiz Bang, with only one “z” and no hyphen...
...While Applebaum correctly noted the importance of the Catholic Church in maintaining a civil society during the period of Communist rule, she failed to reinforce her point in a negative sense in regard to Russia...
...Lastly, permit me to congratulate Jonathan Aitken and his wife Elizabeth for her survival from a very rare form of cancer...
...One fallacy, however, stands out...
...It left me wondering how the authors or the reviewer somehow missed the seminal scientific and economic drivers behind what’s often termed reproductive science...
...If this refers to the fabled Washington hostess, her forename was in fact Perle, not Pearl...
...That exploitation and mischief exist in any arrangement where liberty is preferred to the jackboot is an unfortunate reality...
...Scruton suggests these sorts (unlike the more principled writers and journalists) need a more vigorous nudge by Leviathan to see they do the right thing...
...Remember that the winning political pitch for then-nascent in vitro Sound far-fetched...
...He scolds them for taking advantage of economies of scale, transportation networks built at public expense, and zoning laws that he believes favor large stores in the suburbs over their smaller urban counterparts...
...Not really...
...RICHaRD L. DINaRDO Stafford, Virginia freedom to sprawl Before Roger Scruton writes again on the relationship of liberty, private property, and market capitalism (“Transferring the Cost,” TAS, 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R M a y 2 0 0 8 April 2008), I advise he spend some time becoming familiar with his subject matter...
...Beginning from a set of erroneous presuppositions that Al Gore could wear comfortably, he proceeds to opinions and conclusions more likely to be found in a Michael Moore screed than The American Spectator...
...Nothing that Mr...
...Looks like the unlucky and politically feckless Chris Reeves got used by secular progressives...
Vol. 41 • May 2008 • No. 4
