Friday, March 12, 2004



This is the Libertarian Purity Test, which is intended to measure how libertarian you are

Wedgewatch
G?day. I wonder how Webdiary will change this year. I?d like to alter its direction a little by shifting emphasis from micro analysing the behaviour of the political combatants to discussing the values being contested and the means being used to do so. And I?d like less anger, I think, and more observation and constructive ideas and action, especially at the grassroots. Today information, analysis, comment and critique from readers on matters raised in Webdiary since I?ve been back.
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POLITICIANS who spark a culture war for the sake of their own power are playing with fire, and journalists who exploit a culture war for the sake of its unleashed furies are throwing gasoline on the flames. At the beginning of the presidential election contest, that is history's warning to America.
· The risks of waging 'culture war'