In Law and Liberty, John Bicknell reviews the influence of Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, which advocated “active measures” to sabotage the machinery and works of industrial civilization such as major hydroelectric dam. Despite Abbey’s contradictory and even offensive views – he was openly racist and sexist – his influence was profound, and is still producing devastating echoes in bitter conflicts like pipeline sabotage in British Columbia.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


