August/September 2001

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Fine Dining at Shell

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• The Price of Legislation

  Charles Paul Freund

• Pupils Wide Open

  Jeremy Lott

• Bad Timing

  Jacob Sullum

• Rave Rage

  Jacob Sullum

• Through the Nose

  Jacob Sullum

• Wages of Vice

  Michael W. Lynch

• Baltimore Blues

  Sam MacDonald

• Murder at the Docks

  Sara Rimensnyder

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Free to Grow

  Nick Gillespie

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quote

Sources

• Sources

Columns

• Sex and the Census

  Cathy Young

  Post-revolution data on toxic bachelors, choice, and children

• Check's in the Mail

  Michael W. Lynch

  How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable

• First Family Follies

  Nick Gillespie

  Why President Bush should let his daughters drink

Features

• The Roots of Racial Profiling

  Gene Callahan & William Anderson

  Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops?

• Old law vs. the new economy

  James V. DeLong

  How New Deal-era regulations stifle flexible work arrangements

• Free Lunch

  Lisa Snell

  Title I's formula for determining aid -- and its recipe for fraud.

• Schoolhouse Crock

  Lisa Snell

  Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything

• The Great Gun Fight

  James V. DeLong

Culture & Reviews

• Chad All Over

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  Assessing the 2000 presidential election

• Ifs and Butts

  Charles Paul Freund

  How smoking became the target of unfiltered malice

• Southern Nationalism

  Charles Oliver

  Exploring the roots of the Civil War

• Beyond Miramax

  Jesse Walker

  Far from Hollywood, new filmmaking communities emerge

• How the East Grew Poor

  L. E. Birdzell Jr.

  Imperial weather and the poverty of nations

• I Dreamed I Saw Joey Ramone Last Night

  Nick Gillespie & Brian Doherty

  The P.C. eulogizing of a punk rocker

• Paper Tigers

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Page slaves pressed by history's volume

Artifacts

• Artifact: Outside In

  Charles Paul Freund