December 2004
But, thou Bethlehem . . . —December 2004
PERSPECTIVE
The Plight of the Homeless
by Thomas Fleming
Life in the Unreal City.
VIEWS
Finding Eden
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
The paradise of fools and its King.
At Home in the Cosmos
by John Francis Nieto
Dante versus the modern imagination.
Taxation for Economic Survival: The Business Transfer Tax
The severity of the ongoing decline of U.S. manufacturing has placed our prosperity and national security in jeopardy. A principal cause of this crisis is the federal tax code, which currently imposes multiple layers of progressive taxation on U.S. goods.
The Plight of the Homeless
In one of Douglas Adams’ very silly books, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the egocentric two-headed president of the universe, is condemned to undergo the ordeal of the Total Perspective Vortex. It is an excruciating form of torture that exposes the criminal to a sense of the infinite size of the universe and his own small place in it. The result is the annihilation of the self. The device was designed by a scientist who got tired of his wife telling him to put things in perspective. The nagging wife might just as well have been Adam Smith or William Godwin or any one of the liberal philosophers who insist that we look at ourselves as an impartial spectator or extraterrestrial would.
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