by Anonymous Logician, Copyright April 17, 2007, all rights reserved. 952 views
LewRockwell.com just published a short piece of mine on Kurt Vonnegut:
Author Kurt Vonnegut died last week at age 84, leaving his skeptical but stubbornly human stamp on American literature. Like most English majors, I studied Vonnegut in college, but it's for a short story one of my professors recommended outside of class that I actually remember him. Americans today regard Vonnegut's legacy as cynical–which it certainly was. Yet his story "Harrison Bergeron," written in 1961, reveals a more positive upshot of Vonnegut's doubt: his mistrust of the state….