August/September 1994

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Editor's Notes

• The Rule of Lawton

  Jacob Sullum

  Government subsidies for health care invite arbitrary intervention.

• Persecution Complex

  Virginia Postrel

  The attack on "religious harassment" is part of a bigger picture.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Comic Injustice

  Nick Gillespie

  A Florida obscenity trial may have wide implications for artists.

• Age Before Booty

  Rick Henderson

  Social Security recipients are living longer after they retire.

• Label Lingo

  Rick Henderson

  Federal language cops return to the grocery store.

• Hailing Cabs

  Rick Henderson

  Taxi regulations fall in Denver and Indianapolis.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Gunning for Change

  Liam T.A. Ford

  An alderman wants to end Chicago's handgun ban.

• California Scheming

  Michael W. Lynch & Steven Hayward

  A referendum on single-payer health care

• Goppycock

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  The emerging GOP death wish

• Bill Killers

  Rick Henderson

  Are greens planning a hasty retreat from the legislative battlefield?

• Dose of Reality

  Carolyn Lochhead

  Why ClintonCare is ailing

• Life Savings

  James L. Payne

  For 170 years, a private British organizatin has been rescuing people at sea.

• Viva La Evolution!

  Mack Tanner & Larry Grupp

  Does a taste of free entrprise mean the end for Fidel's Cuba?

Features

• Engler's Angle

  Derek Green

  How tax relief became school reform in Michigan

• Hits of the '80s

  Richard B. McKenzie

  A second opinon about a much-maligned decade

Interviews

• The New, New World

  Nick Gillespie & Virginia Postrel

  Richard Rodriguez on culture and assimilation

Book Reviews

• The Persuasive Life

  Donald N. McCloskey

• Deregulatory Drivel

  William Niskanen

  "Must carry" cable rules don't sparkle.

• Bad Words

  Jacob Sullum

• Unsentimental Compassion

  Martin Morse Wooster