April 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Moral Panic Buttons

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Just Say No To Intellectual Property

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Obscene Prosecution

  Brian Doherty

  Comic book conviction

• Privacy Watch

  Brian Doherty

  Keeping track of their man

• Does Size Matter?

  Jacob Sullum

  More teachers, same scores

• Good for the Heart

  Jacob Sullum

  Benefits of drinking

• It's Not Easy Being Green

  Jesse Walker

  Who's an environmentalist?

• Total Deregulation

  Jesse Walker

  Zoning rebellion in Georgia

• High-Tech Bicycling

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Grassroots globalization

• Revolutionary Arts

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Opera goes underground

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Disturbed Minds

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago:

Data

• Data

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Box Check

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Aborting Equality

  Cathy Young

  Men's odd place in the abortion debate.

• Mickey Mouse Clubbed

  Jesse Walker

  Disney's cartoon rodent speaks out on the Eldred decision.

• Space Balls

  Tim Cavanaugh

  NASA fights the future.

Features

• Is That a Computer in Your Pants?

  Jesse Walker

  Cyberculture chronicler Howard Rheingold on smart mobs, smart environments, and smart choices in an age of connectivity

• Prisoners of Digital Television

  Mike Godwin

  A misadventure in high-tech regulatory policy -- and a Harry Potter Fix

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

  Melinda Ammann

  How the OxyContin crackdown hurts patients in pain

Culture & Reviews

• The Killer Fog

  Todd Seavey

  When green politics masquerades as environmental science.

• Wicked Woman Warning

  Charles Paul Freund

  How old vices come back to haunt us.

• Hell Hounds

  Damon W. Root

  How a musical moral panic destroyed three young men.

• Command Performances

  Michael Young

  The civilian-military conflict over the conduct of war.

• Lust-See TV

  Nick Gillespie

  Small-screen sex and its discontents.

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Capitol Culture Complex