It is one of the most common tragedies of human history: a region populated by relatively defenseless farmers is set upon by a gang of well-armed bandits, who force the farmers off their land and divide the land and spoils among themselves. In 1893, the tragedy had come to Zimbabwe, and the gang of well-armed bandits were British settlers led by
The final flight of the space-shuttle program, in progress as this is written, has prompted a number of retrospectives on the program’s costs and benefits. Saturday’s Wall Street Journal reported that the price tag on the US space-shuttle program has been difficult to pin down. One NASA estimate — on the low end, because it does not account for
[Lewis D. Solomon: The Privatization of Space Exploration: Business, Technology, Law, and Policy . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-4128-0759-3, 128 pages. This review originally appeared in Libertarian Papers , 4.1 (2012).] Lewis D. Solomon’s book The Privatization of Space Exploration , now available in a 2012
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