Governments have long “crushed” ivory, allegedly to stop the slaughter of elephants for their tusks (and not because bureaucrats enjoy stealing priceless objects they could never afford from wealthy serfs. Yes, I know that’s what you were thinking, you cynic, you). And writers here at LRC have excoriated the utter “insanity” of this War on Ivory for just as long. So I hope you’ll indulge me as I add my two cents, because this barbarity will strike close to home in August: “A ton of confiscated [sic for ‘purloined’] elephant ivory will be destroyed by an ‘enormous rock crusher’ in … Continue reading Tsk Tsk on Tusks