25 years ago in reason.

"In recent weeks the world has once again witnessed the spectacle of political trials in the Soviet Union.... It is for this reason that we urge a boycott of the Moscow Olympics--not as a mandate from our government but as a spontaneous outpouring of a free people."

--Robert W. Poole Jr., "Boycott Moscow"

"The village board of Hempstead, New York, has outlawed 'for sale' signs on local lawns. The ostensible reason is to prevent 'white flight.'"

--Bill Birmingham, Brickbats

"The influential social position of this elite [of anti-technology intellectuals], then, is threatened by the mass prosperity that is bred by technology and free enterprise. What better way to keep the riff-raff in its place than to...