Ted Frank on Ron Paul and Reason:
It's extraordinarily disappointing to see Reason, once the magazine of Virginia Postrel and Walter Olson, turn into a defender of the worst elements of paleo-libertarianism. There were hints of this in a largely celebratory 2004 piece on tax protesters that ignored the fact that many of the leaders of that fringe movement were simply scamming the gullible for personal gain by selling fantastic literature on magical incantations to absolve one from tax liability. But in the last few months Reason senior editors went whole hog on Ron Paul, knowing that it could only blow up in the face of the libertarian movement, and (together with the too-public silence from the libertarians like me who knew better) have set back the cause years.
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