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To Nicholas Strakon's columns.

Nicholas Strakon is founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of The Last Ditch.

• This piece is new to the site if not actually newborn. You'll see what I mean when you read my introductory note.

"Ron Paul's gifts: Go home, nice man"

• "Three thoughts, nicely provoked" — a sidebar to Dr. Stephen J. Sniegoski's "America's man in Uzbekistan." (June 22, 2005)

• Strakon wrote this essay in an attempt to formulate his thinking about "The homosexual choice." (November 20, 2004)

• Strakon (along with David T. Wright and Ronn Neff) participated in our "Encounter with a reader on war and empire." Look for Strakon's contributions on the "Encounter" table of contents page. (April 30)

• A reader having taken us to task for loving and defending the white West, Strakon and David T. Wright reply. Here is that exchange, posted March 24.

• Stumbling, in a yellowed back issue of some old rag, upon a little speculation about what might happen in the future year of 2003, Strakon is reminded of what is always the first casualty of war: "Eking out a crumb of truth, every six years." (March 7, 2003)

• Strakon is proud to announce that TLD has been designated a "hate group." (August 17)

• In 1996, for TLD 13, Strakon wrote a review-essay on the indispensable Walter Karp's Indispensable Enemies. Strakon says the piece, which tests his own ruling-class theories against Karp's, remains a personal favorite among all his writings: "Will the real oligarchs please stand up." (Posted June 8, 2002)

• Remember "Strakon Strikes a Match"? Strakon's short (or somewhat short) takes have been supplanted by our "Stop and think" feature on the home page, but there's been a little agitation for the Matches to be reposted. We're happy to oblige, at least in part. Here is a book of Matches covering the 15 months prior to September 11. (April 13)

Strakon's final two Matches,
from just after September 11.
 

• From the April-May 1995 issue of The Last Ditch: In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Strakon asked: "Who bombs children?"  Reposted January 21, 2002.

• Strakon responds to instructions from the Party in "The Libertarian Party: New frontiers in free expression." (December 3, 2001)

• From TLD 14 in 1996, Strakon's article "Sweeping Rand's barnyard: Racism and individualism" has now been posted in full text. (November 14, 2000)

• In the first issue (September 1994), Strakon introduced TLD with "Who we are; what we're up to."