August/September 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Bringing Art to Court

  Jesse Walker

  The new censors

• Creative Matrix

  Virginia Postrel

  What we lose by regulating culture

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Label Union

  Brian Doherty

• Out to Launch

  Charles Paul Freund

• Hack Radio

  Jesse Walker

• Undiscovered Country

  Jesse Walker

• Contract Clause

  Mariel Garza

• Choice Moves

  Michael W. Lynch

• Data: Taken to the Cleaners

  Michael W. Lynch

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Bill's Excellent Adventure

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Clinton's ultra-violent video game

• No Escape

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington looks longingly at the exit doors

• Title IX's Invisible Ink

  Walter Olson

  How the Supreme Court made up "student-on-student" harassment law

Features

• The Day They Came to Sue the Book

  David B. Kopel

  The courts take out a contract on free speech

• Prison Conversion

  Jacob Sullum

  After studying nonviolent drug offenders, a criminologist who once said "Let 'Em Rot" now says "Let 'Em Go."

• Cox Reports

  Jeff Taylor & Michael W. Lynch

• Dead Air

  Michael W. Lynch

  When the FCC shuts down pirate broadcasters, it sometimes unplugs whole communities too.

• Warning: Bioethics May Be Hazardous to Your Health

  Ronald Bailey

  The moralists' attack on medical progress and patient freedom

• Forced Payment

  Richard Miniter

  Clinton's Social Security reform would rob teachers, ministers, and cops.

Culture & Reviews

• Hear Her Roar

  Cathy Young

• King of the Jungle

  John J. Miller

• The Wrong Rights

  Daniel Shapiro

• Polling Alone

  Jesse Walker

• Code War

  Mike Godwin

• Nazi Economics

  Michael McMenamin

Artifacts

• Artifact: Game Theory

  Jeff Taylor