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To: Lane3 who wrote (29176)	2/12/2004 8:49:23 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

EconoPundit - Even stranger still... I purchased a newly-unexpurgated edition of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land a few years ago, to see how it had aged since I'd first read the original (expurgated, I guess?) version many years ago in high school. I was surprised to find how (ahem) sexist and uncomfortable Heinlein's future (neither desktops nor internet!) actually seems to an, uh, adult early-21st century reader. But now, via Milt Rosenberg, we're sent to Colby Cosh in The American Spectator: If you wish to trace the sources of the libertarian strain in 20th-century American thought, you must include the science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in your accounting of Hayeks, Menckens, Rands, and Rothbards. He deserves no less, yet is not always found in the ledger...Called everything from fascist to pornographer in his time, Heinlein is now recognizable as a particular sort of conservative, one who would get along well with Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, and Barry Goldwater. I suppose I should have thought of this, but I didn't.