Football, Rousseau—and Salinger

When you read “Epstean’s Law,” you have a better idea of why statism has come upon us—Nock started predicting its coming in the 1920’s—and though the essay may leave you with a feeling of hopelessness, you at least have an understanding of its basic cause. In “Utopia in Pennsylvania” you learn how a people can, if they set their minds to it, upset the State’s applecart; it is a story of the Amish people who made the New Deal look foolish by simply refusing to cooperate with it.

And so it goes. Each of this baker’s dozen is a commentary on life in the present, and will probably be so a quarter of a century hence—even though some of the incidents and personalities mentioned are already entombed in history. It is modern reading, and all exquisitely delightful.

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When you read “Epstean’s Law,” you have a better idea of why statism has come upon us—Nock started predicting its coming in the 1920’s—and though the essay may leave you with a feeling of hopelessness, you at least have an understanding of its basic cause. In “Utopia in Pennsylvania” you learn how a people can, if they set their minds to it, upset the State’s applecart; it is a story of the Amish people who made the New Deal look foolish by simply refusing to cooperate with it.

And so it goes. Each of this baker’s dozen is a commentary on life in the present, and will probably be so a quarter of a century hence—even though some of the incidents and personalities mentioned are already entombed in history. It is modern reading, and all exquisitely delightful.