GumboFilé: Freedom From Thought: How high school history taught me to be a libertarian

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Freedom From Thought: How high school history taught me to be a libertarian

For me, it is a class that has demonstrated a truth that I now know all too well – the government is relentless in its self-gratifying publicity campaign, and will stop at nothing to promote itself, often at the expense of the truth. Its textbooks read as hagiographies, substituting thoughtful analysis for blind reverence. I'm not buying it

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Freedom From Thought: How high school history taught me to be a libertarian

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