April 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: In Defense of Drunken Sailors

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Playing to the Totalitarian Left

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Textbook Tolerance

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Gulf of Hate

• Belting Utilities

  Brian Doherty

  Cracking down on clean air.

• Patent Sense

  Brian Doherty

  Letting genes out of the bottle.

• Option Overload

  Charles Paul Freund

  Choked by choice?

• Doubt, Despair, and Charity

  Julian Sanchez

  No confidence in nonprofits.

• Flower Power

  Jacob Sullum

  Free the florists!

• PATRIOT Spawn

  Julian Sanchez

  Slipping down the slope.

• Late Communism

  Jesse Walker

  Capitalist roaders.

• Why Warming?

  Ronald Bailey

  Climate change confidential.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Julian Sanchez

  The Deregulator.

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Lack of PRIDE

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Abuse Revisited

  Cathy Young

  A feminist challenges the conventional wisdom about domestic violence.

• Hack Roast

  Matt Welch

  When citizens attack...reporters

Features

• Washington's Biggest Crime Problem

  William Anderson & Candice E. Jackson

  The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution.

• Emotional Choices

  Joli Jensen

  What story you choose to believe about antidepressants reveals a deeper truth about who you are.

• Free Play

  Kevin Parker

• Building the Perfect Candidate

  Nick Gillespie & Tim Cavanaugh

Culture & Reviews

• Transcendental Goods

  Nick Gillespie & Ronald Bailey

  Charles Murray discusses art, accomplishment, faith, and doubt.

• Fools for Communism

  Glenn Garvin

  Still apologists after all these years

• Hobbes in Cyberspace

  Jesse Walker

  Life in an online game world proves nasty, brutish, and short.

• Regulation for Dummies

  Todd Seavey

  Is the FDA necessary?

Artifacts

• Artifact: Text Lit

  Charles Paul Freund