My Golden Anniversary
November 4, 2014
Today I celebrate my “Golden Anniversary”: fifty years ago I stopped voting! Nor do I recite the “Pledge of Allegiance,” stand for the playing of the “National Anthem,” salute the flag, or encourage other people’s children to kill or die in wars.
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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