Monday, April 05, 2004
Reason Magazine
My high school education was uninspiring. There were no classes that raised my interest. Except for one. My senior year I took a course on thesis writing. The professor had us read an article a week and report on it. The aspect of this assignment that stuck in my mind was that the story could not come from a publication that had wide-spread distribution like Time or Newsweek. He introduced me to magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Mother Jones. Because of this teacher's influence, for years I subscribed to a now defunct weekly newspaper called the National Observer and a defunct magazine named New Times.
One weekend when my wife was out of town I went to dinner and searched for a new magazine to read which was consistent with my past teacher's criteria. I stumbled upon Reason, which states right under the title, "free minds and free markets." I was quite familiar with the fact that Ayn Rand used this expression to link capitalism with rationality. I had by this time read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and therefore could not believe that there was a publication that adhered to these beliefs.
Boy was I wrong. The magazine introduced me to the entire world of libertarian thought. Finding this publication directly led me to the CATO Institute and 10 years of learning from this fine institution. It even resulted in me leaving the healthcare profession for a year and working as an administrator in a free-market think tank.
When I was religiously reading Reason the editor was Virginia Postrel, whom I have previously introduced to you. Today, the New York Times has a story about the innovative front cover of this month's edition.
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One weekend when my wife was out of town I went to dinner and searched for a new magazine to read which was consistent with my past teacher's criteria. I stumbled upon Reason, which states right under the title, "free minds and free markets." I was quite familiar with the fact that Ayn Rand used this expression to link capitalism with rationality. I had by this time read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and therefore could not believe that there was a publication that adhered to these beliefs.
Boy was I wrong. The magazine introduced me to the entire world of libertarian thought. Finding this publication directly led me to the CATO Institute and 10 years of learning from this fine institution. It even resulted in me leaving the healthcare profession for a year and working as an administrator in a free-market think tank.
When I was religiously reading Reason the editor was Virginia Postrel, whom I have previously introduced to you. Today, the New York Times has a story about the innovative front cover of this month's edition.
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