Bill James reviews the newly-released film, V for Vendetta.As an adolescent back in the 1960s, I was impressed by an anarchist poster which carried the slogan, “Vote for Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions.”This film picks up on the same idea – that Guy Fawkes was some sort of proto-libertarian. Historically, this is nonsense. The government of James I which Guy Fawkes tried to blow up was certainly repressive enough by today’s standards, but would have been repla…
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