Christopher Hayes, a writer for the leftwing magazine The Nation, has stumbled upon the Bootleggers and Baptists phenomenon: Two years in Washington have started to make me feel jaded. I’ve come to expect that even nobly conceived laws will be manipulated and distorted for private ends. But once in a while I hear a story [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Ken O’Brien is a homeless who for the last few years has made a living selling/giving away books in Harvard Square. However, on Tuesday, O’Brien gave away the last of his books and will be closing Banned in Harvard Square Booksellers forever. Naturally, he was regulated out of the market: O’Brien, the first and only [...]