April 2001

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Editor's Notes

• Bush the Lesser

  Nick Gillespie

  Living through a minimalist presidency.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Hate Squad

  Charles Paul Freund

• Unsanctioned Webs

  Jesse Walker

• Hell's Bells

  James K. Glassman

• The Ghost of Energy Crisis Past

  RiShawn Biddle

• Why Breed Distrust?

  Ronald Bailey

• Fly the Flag — Or Else

  Stephen F. Hayes

• Got Shrooms?

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Silencing Cellular

  Sara Rimensnyder

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: 18th Century Man

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Sources

• Sources

Columns

• In God We Trust

  Charles Paul Freund

• Monkeying Around with the Self

  Cathy Young

  Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues.

• Policy Days

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington hears retirement talk, takes in an intentional congressional comedy show, and enjoys a Texas breakfast.

Features

• Title IX's Pyrrhic Victory

  Michael W. Lynch

  ow the quest for "gender equity" is killing men's athletic programs

• Goddamn the Pusher Man

  Ronald Bailey

  Why does everybody seem to hate the pharmaceutical industry?

Interviews

• Sex, Economics, and Other Legal Matters.

  Steve Kurtz

  Judge and scholar Richard A. Posner speaks out on the Clinton impeachment, the Microsoft case, and nude dancing.

Culture & Reviews

• San Francisco Bleat

  Brian Doherty

• Surfing Secrets

  Jennifer DePalma

  The multiple meanings of online privacy.

• Going Bezirke

  John McClaughry

  Where little platoons and little governments meet.

• Getting Right with Bobby

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  The strange lure of Robert F. Kennedy

• A Rendezvous with Density

  Michael Valdez Moses

  The FDR Memorial and the Clinton Era.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Shear Anxiety

  Charles Paul Freund