Articles by Myles Kantor

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The Inversion of Compassion

A huge 12-year-old boy beats a tiny 6-year-old girl to death. So all the sympathy is for him.

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3/17/2001

Robert Byrd's Finest Hours

I knew conservatives would attack Robert Byrd for opposing the totalitarian civil rights act of 1964, says Myles Kantor. But that's something we should praise him for.

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3/12/2001

Fascist Federalism at The New York Times

Myles Kantor can't believe his eyes.

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3/5/2001

Stop Being a Schmuck, Jonah

Jonah Goldberg, the minicon editor of National Review Online, boasts about not knowing Mises.

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2/26/2001

A Dowding Thomas

Myles Kantor on Maureen Dowd's New York Times smear of Clarence Thomas.

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2/23/2001

Sympathy for the Comrade

W.E.B. DuBois was a Red, says Myles Kantor. Let's never forget it, not even during Black History Month.

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2/19/2001

Garry Wills Gets One Right

The Constitution established legislative supremacy, not presidential imperialism.

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2/15/2001

Cornel West's Anti-Confederate Absurdities

Cornel West's recent stock in trade, besides promoting the evil be-bop, is falsehoods about the Confederacy.

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2/10/2001

Bonnie Blue or EU?

That's the choice before the people of Georgia. (The politicians have already made their choice, and it is the dark side, as usual.)

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2/2/2001

“Crimes” and Punishments

Myles Kantor on the still-dangerous remnants of the draft.

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1/31/2001

The Separation of Stanza and State

Myles Kantor on the inaugural-poem question.

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1/25/2001

No Great Conservative Hope

His enemies are monstrous, but Ashcroft is no where near as good as they say.

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1/19/2001

Candor for Dr. King

Let's tell the truth, says Myles Kantor.

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1/18/2001

Anti-Statism with a Smile: A Note to My Readers

We need to copy Rothbard in every sense, says Myles Kantor.

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1/13/2001

ENDA as Watershed

It may be a step too far even for the US State, Myles Kantor thinks.

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1/12/2001

The Senate Abolitionists

The nationalists are targeting more than the Electoral College, says Myles Kantor.

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1/3/2001

A New Year's Resolution for the Right

Let us act, says Myles Kantor, on that great Horatian imperative, "Nil desperandum." Never despair.

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12/28/2000

My Top Eleven for 2000

Myles Kantor recommends your Christmas reading.

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12/21/2000

Getting Right with Lincoln as a Libertarian

Lincoln was a monster. Stop defending him, says Myles Kantor.

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12/14/2000

An Anthem to Tyranny

The Contender is a statist movie even by Commywood standards.

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12/11/2000

Abolish the Electoral College (It's Not Federal Enough)

It's not federal enough, says Myles Kantor.

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12/4/2000

Suffrage Fetishism in the Sunshine State

In America, said Emma Goldman, voting is the opiate of the people.

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11/25/2000

A.R. Ammons's Austrian Aesthetic

Myles Kantor on a praxeological poet.

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11/22/2000

Illiteracy and Infantilism in the Homeland

Myles Kantor, a Floridian, looks at the vote.

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11/11/2000

Coker's Legacy and the Human Cost of Judicial Activism

Another crime of the Supreme Court.

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11/10/2000

Census Statism in Turkey

The State counts its cattle.

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11/4/2000

Happy Ninth, Justice Thomas

George I's greatest legacy. Article by Myles Kantor.

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10/24/2000

A Note on Al's Adherence Issues

Myles Kantor doesn't plan to vote for Bush, but he can't stand Gore.

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10/20/2000

Secretary Cheney, Don't Let George W. Bush Kill America's Youth

Please repudiate your chilling comment on war. Open letter from Myles Kantor.

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10/7/2000

Lincoln's Slavery Lacuna

The Great Emancipator was happy to promote slavery, if he was paid for it.

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9/28/2000

Give u2018Em Hell, Harry!

Clint Eastwood battles the socialist ADA.

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9/23/2000

Thurgood Marshall's Libertarian Moment

It didn't last very long.

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9/21/2000

The Killing of Alberto Sepulveda: An Open Letter to Barry McCaffrey

An open letter to head drug bureaucrat Barry McCaffrey from Myles Kantor.

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9/18/2000

Charles Kesler's Lincolnitis

No friend of liberty can admire the dictator.

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9/14/2000

Norman Podhoretz's Constitution Problem

He just doesn't understand federalism and states rights, says Myles Kantor.

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9/8/2000