Time to check back in with Edith Mae Patterson, Pine Bluff schoolteacher who, as we discussed Oct. 25, was startled 100 years ago to find herself declared the most beautiful woman in 46 states by a contest she did not enter.
In her second semester at a predominantly white institution, Robyn Smith decided to transfer to a historically Black school. A tuition increase prompted Arthur Wells to switch from a four-year university to a two-year college. For Amara Jackson, the coronavirus pandemic was behind a late-summer decision to stay in Chicago for her freshman year, since classes were going to be online anyway. .
Urbanism Without Government
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Asking, “But who will build the roads?” is a cliched response to proposals for a more libertarian political system. However, it leads to the interesting historical question of “Who has built the roads in anarchic societies?”
Colonial America provides a few examples that answer this question. Perhaps the best known example of anarchism in American history was in Rhode Island, or “Rogue’s Island,” founded by Baptists fleeing Massachusetts. The stateless Baptists founded the cities of Portsmouth and Warwick.
Unlike the Baptists, William Penn didn’t intend to create an anarchic colony, but Pennsylvania was, in fact,without a government from 1684 to 1691 as evidenced by Penn’s failure to successfully levy any taxes during that time.