by Matt Barr

It's not as bad as you're making it out to be, so shut the hell up

Cathy Young:

Last week, the extremism was most apparent in such complaints: In a Fox News discussion, conservative commentator Fred Barnes lamented that the ruling against the New London landowners amounted to "suppression of private property," and even the more liberal Morton Kondracke inquired, "Are we an anti-private property country?" But in an anti-private property country, private property is officially rejected, not simply denied official approval. For government to have the power to take property by eminent domain and convey it to another private owner is not the same as to install a plaque bearing the Karl Marx quote, "the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property" -- and not the same as to close down realty offices and ban ownership of private homes.

Well, no, that's not what she wrote, and it would be hard to imagine an article appearing on Reason's website saying that. But the article is about religion, not private property.

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