April 2011

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Editor's Note

• Against ‘Incitement’

  Matt Welch

  Political speech doesn’t kill people, people kill people

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Live Long and Prosper

  Ronald Bailey

  The benefits of not dying

• Overeducated Waiters

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Higher education bubble

• Myocardial Infractions

  Jacob Sullum

  Smoking bans and heart attacks

• Medicare Deform

  Peter Suderman

  Gaming the system

• Unseated

  Tim Cavanaugh

  If you tax them, they will leave

• TIPS II

  Brian Doherty

  Suspicious database

• Tax Attacks

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  IRS audits up

• Four-Legged Warrants

  Jacob Sullum

  Unreliable drug dogs

• Out of Range

  Brian Doherty

  Chicago’s gun training trap

• Registry Creep

  Radley Balko

  Nonsexual sex crimes

• Exploding Pancakes!

  Peter Suderman

  Foiling the TSA

• Resource Bet Redux

  Ronald Bailey

Soundbites

• How Much Does Government Cost?

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Better Budget Math

Columns

• Carbon Rationing by Other Means

  Ronald Bailey

  After Congress fails to regulate greenhouse gases, the president hands the job to the EPA.

• Failing Upward in Criminal Justice

  Radley Balko

  The prosecutor who wrongly put a paraplegic in prison wants to be a judge.

• Malls of a Certain Age

  Greg Beato

  The shopping mall: a look back

• Is Julian Assange a Journalist?

  Jacob Sullum

  For First Amendment purposes, it doesn’t matter.

• The State Pension Time Bomb

  Veronique de Rugy

  Poor accounting rules and flagrant irresponsibility have sped up the states’ day of reckoning.

Features

• The Loughner Panic

  Breaking down the media/political breakdown over the Tucson massacre

• The Lobster Underground

  Baylen Linnekin

  Food vendors vs. the state

• Unpacking Jared Lee Loughner

  Jesse Walker

  If you’re the Southern Poverty Law Center, the media will treat your guesses like gold.

• Looking for Loughners

  Jacob Sullum

  Would laxer commitment rules make us safer?

• From Reefer Madness to the Hays Code

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Pundits go mad looking for Tucson massacre scapegoats.

• The Politicization of Everything

  Nick Gillespie

  Why Americans increasingly hate Democrats and Republicans

• Gun Control Couldn’t Have Stopped It

  Brian Doherty

  The Tucson massacre should not lead to new restrictions on firearms.

• The Deadliest Rhetoric

  Radley Balko

  Critics who link anti-government speech to violence ignore the violence committed by a government at “war.”

• Just Your Typical Would-Be Assassin

  Ronald Bailey

  Jared Loughner fits the profile of a killer— but not in the way you might think.

Interviews

• The Triumph of Politics Over Economics

  Nick Gillespie

  David Stockman on TARP, the Fed, Ronald Reagan, and Ron Paul

Culture & Reviews

• Sorry, Charley

  Bill Steigerwald

  Was John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley a fraud?

• Nudgers vs. Nannies

  Brendan O'Neill

  The civil war between British busybodies

• The $6 Billion Scam

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Jerry Brown’s plan to kill community “redevelopment” is fiscally smart, morally right, and probably doomed.

• Kinder Egg Contraband

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Protecting Americans from foreign bonbons.

Book Reviews

• A Techno-Agrarian Manifesto

  Greg Beato

  Is vertical farming the future of American agriculture?

Briefly Noted

• Briefly Noted: The Big-Government Apple

  Damon W. Root

• Briefly Noted: A History of Paternalism

  Radley Balko

• Briefly Noted: Poetry and Power

  Richard Kostelanetz

• Briefly Noted: Batman Goes Corporate

  Peter Suderman