J. Neil Schulman
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March 16, 2010 - 12:01 am
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Alongside Night
A Novel by J. Neil Schulman
Chapter 2
The New York wind was damply chill as Elliot and Denise Vreeland left Ansonia’s five-story brownstone at 90 Central Park West, but Elliot’s thoughts were not with his surroundings. That his father was not alive seemed impossibly foreign to his entire orientation, to his entire [...]
March 15, 2010 - 2:01 am
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Alongside Night
A Novel by J. Neil Schulman
To Samuel Edward Konkin III
Mentor, Co-conspirator, and Friend
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank those who generously lent me ideas, criticisms, reactions, technical expertise, encouragement, discouragement, and other valuable considerations throughout the various stages of this effort. A listing of this kind can never be quite complete, but particular thanks go [...]
March 14, 2010 - 3:04 am
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Originally published March 9, 2001 in The Sierra Times
In “I, Mudd,” a famous episode of the original Star Trek, a robot is confused into burning out its circuits by being given a logical paradox of the sort, “Everything I say is a lie. I am now telling the truth.”
In an experiment as famous to college [...]
March 13, 2010 - 2:01 am
Posted in A Filmmaker on Film, Analysis, Economics, Wisdom | 1 comment
No, thank you. I don’t want to replace a Two-party system with a Tea Party system.
The 9th Circuit Appellate Court just upheld the words “under God” remaining in the Pledge of Allegiance. The ACLU is expected to appeal the case directly to God, since given how things are going in the United States the Almighty [...]
March 12, 2010 - 2:01 am
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Originally published in 1995 on The World According to J. Neil Schulman
If you hang around fringe political movements, as I’ve done for the last quarter century, you’re constantly getting a sense of déjà vu — “been there, done that.” Bring up any current political controversy for discussion, and within a couple of minutes you’ll be [...]
March 11, 2010 - 2:01 am
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Originally published in 1996 on The World According to J. Neil Schulman
Are you a bigot?
It won’t surprise me if you don’t think so. Bigotry, to most people, means intolerance of, or discrimination against, a person on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnic origin, gender, or what used to be called [...]
March 10, 2010 - 2:37 am
Posted in Analysis, Victim Disarmament | 5 comments
Reading a transcript of the lawyers’ oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago actually gives us a more accurate diagnosis on the condition of liberty in the United States today than you could get from watching a thousand hours of cable news and listening to [...]
A compilation of my commentary on war, over the years. Am I anti-War or Pro-War? I think the clear and honest answer is, “yes.” But I am, and have always been, unequivocally opposed to conscription at any time, for any purpose. I wrote my novel, The Rainbow Cadenza, to make the strongest pro-natural-rights and anti-utilitarian [...]
March 8, 2010 - 2:01 am
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Published September 19, 2001 — a week after the 9/11 attacks — in The Sierra Times
A lot of people whose only exposure to history is from sound bytes are familiar with the phrase “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and they know that these words were spoken by President Franklin Delano [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon “a complicated intelligence scenario and act” used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, Iran’s state TV has reported. “September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war [...]