Archive for William E. Pike
William Pike (williamedwardpike@gmail.com) lives in western Indiana, where he has imbibed raw milk from time to time and lived to tell about it.
Raw Milk and the Sour State
Whether it is an expensive organic brand or simply carries a mega-chain store name, that milk has undergone pasteurization and homogenization. There is a growing subset of consumers who would prefer not to buy their milk this way. They want it unpasteurized, unhomogenized—in a word, “raw.”
20Jan2009 | William E. Pike | 13 comments | ContinuedWas Dickens Really a Socialist?
I have been an avid fan of Charles Dickens’s works since before entering high school. I have also adhered to the freedom philosophy for about as long. Therefore, as the years passed and I read more and more commentators lauding Dickens as a catalyst for collectivist economics and state-centered social programs, I grew discouraged and [...]
1Dec2006 | William E. Pike | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Mt. Olive Pickle Boycott: Misidentifying the Enemy
Yellow and green jars of Mt. Olive Pickles are a familiar site in grocery stores throughout the southeast and beyond. As the second-best selling brand of shelf-stable pickles in the United States, Mt. Olive Pickle is especially prominent in its home state of North Carolina, the source of one-third of the 120 million pounds of [...]
1May2005 | William E. Pike | 2 comments | ContinuedTaxes into Plowshares
Yet another monument to state control has been erected in Washington, D.C. No, not the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. In this case, the monument is a lesser-known sculpture called “Guns into Plowshares.” This work, erected in 1997, stands in Judiciary Square close to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Dubbed a monument to peace, the [...]
1May2002 | William E. Pike | 1 comment | ContinuedRecruiting Rural Physicians: Small-Town Socialism
As the supreme defender of the status quo, the state often feels a necessity to react whenever a broad market or social change is taking place. Lawmakers and bureaucrats are rarely satisfied to let new trends work themselves out for the public good in a free-market society. Such has certainly been the case with health [...]
1Jan1999 | William E. Pike | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Egg and I
William E. Pike is a junior at Harvard College studying government. When nine-year-old Jamie Andrich tried to sell a 2,000-year-old fossilized egg he and two cousins had found while on vacation, the government of the vastly underpopulated state that is Western Australia said he couldn’t do it. The three children had found the ancient natural [...]
1Apr1994 | William E. Pike | 0 comments | Continued-
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