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Liberty & Power: Group Blog

Amy H. Sturgis

Politics Killed the Dystopia

Twenty years after political attacks from both the Right and Left grounded a pathbreaking dystopian science fiction television series, fans and critics still remember the Captain Power story.

I discuss how anti-gun and pro-family groups missed the important lessons concerning liberty in the series they destroyed in the latest StarShipSofa podcast, available here.

Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 11:02 AM | Comments (0) | Return

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