30 years ago in Reason - excerpts from previous articles - Brief Article - Excerpt

Reason, Jan, 2003

"The John Birch Society has abandoned its old conspiracy theory, which held that the liberal establishment is riddled with Soviet agents.... Their 'new' theory holds that international communism was created by a small clique of international and 'Wall Street' financiers."

Peter E. McAlpine, "The Eastern Establishment 'Conspiracy'"

"Intellectuals in the humanities have long attacked science.... The average college English professor lives with the unadmitted fear of exposure as an intellectual fraud--and the man most likely to expose him is the scientist, the real intellectual."

Ronald E. Merrill, "The New Anti-Science Movement"

"Unless Congress acts decisively to remove existing controls...the government will take over radio and television in a few years. The result would be a single broadcast system, 'operated, programmed--in short, completely dominated--by an elite group of Washington bureaucrats."'

Trends, "Freedom from Broadcasting"