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Behind the Headlines by Justin RaimondoAntiwar.com April 8, 2002 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA POSTREL?Post-9/11: Who speaks for libertarianism – the Old Right or the Neocon Clones? A note from the author: I apologize, in advance, for the sheer length of this column, but since it addresses the sell-out of basic libertarian principles by people and institutions who purport to speak in its name, I thought it important to address these questions thoroughly, with extensive quotations from those I name. Too bad, in attacking Antiwar.com, these pathetic losers didn't do the same – but then what can one expect from craven...

The chronicler of the American twilight is going into semi-retirement. Will Harper’s magazine become less of a lefty echo chamber?Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper’s, is very old-school. He wears a beautiful dark suit and a necktie tight around his buttoned collar. He not only still smokes (Parliaments, the recherché brand of Bond girls), he smokes in his office. He was educated at Hotchkiss and Yale and Cambridge. His manner, personal as well as literary, is Gore Vidalian, a patrician alloy of faint amusement and grand disappointment. He runs a 155-year-old, self-consciously old-fashioned magazine that’s all about plain text, not...

As a businessperson, shareholder or citizen, you probably favor low taxes, smaller rather than larger government, traditional families and a strong defense. You may even think such views are common-sense and rooted in life experience. Wrong, says a magazine editor who personifies liberalism until it hurts -- both him and his organization. He sees Americans as so bamboozled by ideas from the right, financed by "ultraconservative millionaires," that we've been softened to brainlessness. Never mind the liberalbias that oozes from campuses, movies and mainstream media. It's conservatism that leads us lambs astray, says Lewis H. Lapham. The editor of Harper's...

Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts Blair Follows the 'Rules'-- Portrait of the Careerist as a Young Man May 28 - June 3, 2003 Last week all the media reporters (including Press Clips) seemed to have lost their moral compass, devoting round-the-clock coverage to plagiarist and fabricator Jayson Blair. First Newsweek and New York put him on their covers, then The New York Observer landed the first long interview with Blair, who is hot to parlay his glory days as a New York Times reporter into a million-dollar book-movie deal. By the time this column comes out (it went to press...