The Brooklyn Museum of Art is suing the City of New York to forestall a threatened suspension of funds resulting from an art exhibit in which a painting of the Virgin Mary sports clumps of elephant dung. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani is offended. So am I, but for a different reason. Why are hardworking people being taxed to support a scatological
Individualists should rejoice! We have been thoroughly trashed by The New York Times Magazine (Sunday, October 17, 1999) in which over a dozen articles blast the ‘Me Millennium.’ Reporting on a poll taken by The New York Times , Andrew J. Cherlin’s article “I’m O.K., You’re Selfish” laments, “to judge by new evidence, the cycle [of society] has
In commenting on the World Trade Organizations (WTO) riots in Seattle, “The Economist” asked, “Why were there no anarchists among all those ‘anarchists?’” Actually, there were, but the ones drawing attention were the sort who give overthrowing the State a bad name. Salon (almost alone among the media) was more accurate in stating: “Most reports
El Museo de Arte de Brooklyn ha demandado a la ciudad de Nueva York para evitar la amenaza de suspensión de fondos a causa de una exposición de arte en la que un cuadro de la Virgen María luce excrementos de elefante. El alcalde Rudolph Guiliani se siente ofendido. Yo también, pero por una razón diferente. ¿Por qué se grava a la gente trabajadora
Al comentar las manifestaciones en contra de la reunión en Seattle de la Organización del Comercio Mundial (OMC), The Economist se preguntaba: «¿Por qué no había anarquistas entre todos esos “anarquistas”?» Realmente, los había, pero aquellos que atraían la atención eran de la clase que le dan al derrocamiento del Estado un mal nombre. La revista
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