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The Editor’s Notes
Ideas. Stuff. Links.
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Letters to the Editor
From Harald Mischnick, Paul Bonneau, Albert Perez
One Year Later - a new letter from Germany, The Importance of Principle, Re: The Importance of Principle
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Of Ants and Men
by L. Neil Smith
*BLAST FROM THE PAST* The war we're fighting is a war between ants and Men.
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Interpreting Venus Figurines—the Ambiguity of Descriptive Terms and their Impact on Reasoned Analysis of Artifacts
by Cathy L.Z. Smith
It has been variously suggested that the so-called Venus figurines portray goddesses, dolls, toys, wards, amulets, worry stones, and teaching aides, to name a few. They have been described as self-reverential, self-referential, educational, mystical, mythical, and erotic, with the advocates of various interpretations judged guilty, by some of their peers, of biases ranging from chauvinism, to feminism, to mysticism, to racism. In some cases those accusations are clearly appropriate, but in others they may not be true at all.
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Nancy Lord, M.D., J.D., 1952 - 2022
By Philip Mundhenk
The first I ever heard of L. Neil Smith was from Nancy Lord. The 1992 VP candidate of the Libertarian Party, she enthused about The Probability Broach….
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Lessons from a Massacre Committed 450 Years Ago
by James Bovard
On this day in 1572, French Catholics slaughtered thirty thousand Protestants (known as Huguenots) in the streets of Paris. The French king and the pope helped organize the the biggest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Roughly half the Bovards living in Paris were killed in the bloodbath.
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