Eli Beckerman, a peace activist, contributed to Swans from 2001 to 2008. His columns and essays can be accessed in the yearly archives, at: 2001 || 2002 || 2003 || 2004 || 2005 || 2006 || 2007 || 2008.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
—L. D. Brandeis