A column by Kent M Pitman in the (now long defunct)
ACM Lisp Pointers, considering Lisp from a
technical and a philosophical viewpoint.
Six (all six?) of these are at
http://www.nhplace.com/people/kent/PS/About-PS.html .
http://www.nhplace.com/people/kent/PS/Lambda.html
is an article titled "More than just words -
LambdaTheUltimate political party".
...The reason is really the same as before--in a world of trade-offs, different priorities yield different decisions. The same differences in priorities that have led the Lisp community to become a different community than the C community...