The New Individualist, April/May 2005
Editor's Desk
Ideas and Issues
The Ideas That Promote Terrorism by David Kelley
In an address to the March against Terror in Washington, D.C., David Kelley appealed to all who stand for happiness, freedom, progress, and reason to join in opposing those who want to control the mind, roll back progress, stifle freedom--and who are willing to kill and maim to do so.
Feature Articles
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual by Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in every state and county. Its current and most serious manifestation was fashioned by an international organization with the explicit goal of replacing the autonomy of individuals over their own land with a collectivist control system that ultimately destroys the natural rights of each citizen.
Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General by Roger Donway
Since becoming the attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer has conducted an aggressive campaign against the financial industry, restructuring the business landscape in accordance with his moral vision, as though he were a religious dictator suddenly transplanted from the Middle East.
Perspectives
Why Ecology Requires Economics by William Thomas
In his new book, Collapse, Jared Diamond integrates archeological research and environmental science to show how different societies succeeded or failed, for he is worried that world civilization as a whole is headed along a path to disaster of the sort that overtook earlier failed cultures. But Diamond's understanding of the modern economy is weak.
Soundings