Self-control Is One Of The Most Exhilarating

Even If One Takes Every Reefer Madness Allegation Of The Prohibitionists At Face Value, Marijuana Prohibition Has Done Far More Harm To Far More People Than Marijuana Ever Could.

The Government Of The United States, Under Lyndon Johnson, Proposes To Concern Itself Over The Quality Of American Life. And This Is Something Very New In The Political Theory Of Free Nations. The Quality Of Life Has Heretofore Depended On The Quality Of The Human Beings Who Gave Tone To That Life, And They Were Its Priests And Its Poets, Not Its Bureaucrats.

I Get Satisfaction Of Three Kinds. One Is Creating Something, One Is Being Paid For It And One Is The Feeling That I Haven't Just Been Sitting On My Ass All Afternoon.

One Must Recently Have Lived On Or Close To A College Campus To Have A Vivid Intimation Of What Has Happened. It Is There That We See How A Number Of Energetic Social Innovators, Plugging Their Grand Designs, Succeeded Over The Years In Capturing The Liberal Intellectual Imagination. And Since Ideas Rule The World, The Ideologues, Having Won Over The Intellectual Class, Simply Walked In And Started To Run Things. Run Just About Everything. There Never Was An Age Of Conformity Quite Like This One, Or A Camaraderie Quite Like The Liberals'.

Earlier This Month The State Department Gave The Umpteenth Performance Of Its Popular Play, Please Tread On Me, With Ceylon As Guest Star, And The Usual Cast.