More Pearls of expression.

I have several reasons for keeping a half-century-old “Goldwater for President” poster on a wall of my university office. It serves as a reminder of youthful political passion (I turned thirteen the day before Lyndon Johnson crushed the Arizona senator at the polls), and it pays tribute to the plainspoken candidate’s libertarian anti-Communism. It also, I suppose, offers my own bit of micro-aggression toward those colleagues—which would be all of them—who find Goldwater’s world view, if they know it, even more abhorrent than antique.

"A View from the Fringe. The John Birch Society and the rise of the radical right." By Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 1/11/16.

H/t: Gary North, LewRockwell.com.