[Comments accepted at original post on Mises.org] I’m looking at the new issue of Chronicles, which features a happy kid using a plough pulled by some oxen, and behind him stands an old corner store but in the back of the supposedly idyllic scene is that dreadful menace Wal-Mart shown in black and white. Wal-Mart! Why, the store intends to take that kid from behind that plough and plunk him behind some counter pushing goods made in China, and thus does the world end. You know, it just doesn’t do it for me. I would rather be in Wal-Mart than … Continue reading Down with (parts of) the past!