Editor's Note

Nick Gillespie

Contributors

Letters

Sex and the Census

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

Cathy Young

Check's in the Mail

How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable

Michael W. Lynch

First Family Follies

Why President Bush should let his daughters drink

Nick Gillespie

The Roots of Racial Profiling

Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops?

Gene Callahan & William Anderson

Old law vs. the new economy

How New Deal-era regulations stifle flexible work arrangements

James V. DeLong

Free Lunch

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

Lisa Snell

The Great Gun Fight

John Lott & Robert Ehrlich

Chad All Over

Assessing the 2000 presidential election

John J. Pitney, Jr.

Ifs and Butts

How smoking became the target of unfiltered malice

Charles Paul Freund

Southern Nationalism

Exploring the roots of the Civil War

Charles Oliver

Beyond Miramax

Far from Hollywood, new filmmaking communities emerge

Jesse Walker

How the East Grew Poor

Imperial weather and the poverty of nations

L. E. Birdzell Jr.

I Dreamed I Saw Joey Ramone Last Night

The P.C. eulogizing of a punk rocker

Nick Gillespie & Brian Doherty

Paper Tigers

Page slaves pressed by history's volume

Tim Cavanaugh