April 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Your Friendly Neighborhood Tyrant

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Cyber-Trespassing

  Brian Doherty

  Actionable e-mail

• Child-Free Dining

  Charles Paul Freund

  A smoking ban backfires

• Fake IDs

  Jeremy Lott

  No face time

• Pot Stops

  Jacob Sullum

  British drug reform

• Corrupt CDs

  Jesse Walker

  Locking up music

• Skin Show

  Michael W. Lynch

  Indecency in Utah

• Slow Learners

  Michael W. Lynch

  Union financial capers

• Stale Granola

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Laissez-forget it

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Dissent via Satellite

  Jesse Walker

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Big Talkers

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Political Returns

  Michael W. Lynch

  Washington wants to manage your 401(k) account.

• Sound Judgment

  Cathy Young

  Does curing deafness really mean cultural genocide?

• Back to Bedrock

  Nick Gillespie

  George W. Bush vs. Fred Flintstone

Features

• Asthma Attack

  Catherine Seipp

  When "zero tolerance" collides with children's health.

• Leaping the Abyss

  Gregory Benford

  Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe.

• Finance on the Fringe

  Michael W. Lynch

  America's check cashers don't exploit the poor; they serve them.

• Legal Loan Sharking or Essential Service?

  Michael W. Lynch

  The great "payday loan" controversy.

Culture & Reviews

• Torturing History

  Chris Bray

  A military historian abuses the past.

• Rose-Colored Glasses

  Alan Charles Kors

  What even disillusioned Marxists missed

• America's Black History

  Mark Goldblatt

  Reconciling patriotism with slavery's legacy.

• Bloviation Nation

  Tim Cavanaugh

  If news junkies are fed up with palaver, they've got a funny way of showing it.

• Empire Burlesque

  Tom Peyser

  The profoundly silly book that has set the academic left aflutter.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Behind the Drip

  Charles Paul Freund