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The Library of Babel

August 18, 2008 - 5:53 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Lifeofthemind
2008-08-19 19:20:03

Paul it is always tempting to say those bums are taking taxpayer money and there ought to be a law. Restraint is a virtue. If Statism and censorship are wrong when used to aggrandize power by Liberals at the expense of peripheral interests then it is also wrong when used to increase the authority of the State at the expense of a public but peripheral entity such as the University of Illinois. On the other hand the State Universities are notorious for featherbedding and should be privatized. The only justification for them was the need to set up Veterinary and Normal schools under the land grant system for the Old Northwest Territory. I am sympathetic to an argument if proven, that the library is violating the terms of it’s endowment by withholding these documents. The fact that that endowment comes from the public purse is regrettable.