Better late than never. Hit & Run, wading into the textbook wars, offers up this equivalent of a libertarian koan:
It is difficult to determine just what specificcurriculum changes the Texas school board has in mind, though the ringleader of the revisionist faction, a creationist weirdo named Don McLeroy, strikes me as one who wants to impart ideology into the textbooks, not balance.
Ya think? It is difficult to determine what I should call the writer of this Hit & Run post: Sparky or Snarky. The thing about Reason is that it can't simply call out McLeroy as a religous fanatic and leave it at that. The libertarian thing to do here is the Texas Two-Step: skip to the right, skip to the left. So in a post about theocrats rewriting American history, there has to be the obligatory discussion of ideological biases on both ends of the political spectrum. Sometimes I wonder if Reason does this just to pander to the liberal-hating conservatives who also consider themselves libertarians. In the end, the writer, seemingly playing it straight, decides:
these people are not to be trusted to achieve some sort of "balancing" of the historical record.
Ya think, Sparky?
