25 years ago in reason.

"How would you like to have your own satellite ground station, receiving up to six channels of first-run movies, live concerts, and sports events? Several years from now you may be able to call your local Sears Roebuck store and order such a system."

--Robert Poole Jr., "Pay TV Expands"

"The bureaucratic approach to inner-cit problems drives away the very people who are almost likely to revive the depressed areas--the entrepreneurs."

--Stuart M. Butler, "Salvaging Our Cities"

"The [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms] has given us enough examples of what is known in law enforcement as a strike-force mentality to suggest either a general policy or an attitude among individual agents favoring...