August/September 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Malls

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Following the Scrip

  Brian Doherty

  Medical privacy in Florida

• Anti-Drug Anxiety

  Jacob Sullum

  Trouble at the propaganda mill

• DNA Dough-Re-Mi

  Charles Paul Freund

  Creative copyrighting

• Trashing Trailer Parks

  Jesse Walker

  No mobile homes?

• Second Thoughts

  Jacob Sullum

  Ashcroft's 'reasonable restrictions'

• Wine Fine

  Michael W. Lynch

  The price of drink

• High Court

  Sara Rimensnyder

  The private lives of judges

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: POTUS and the Brain

  Sara Rimensnyder

Years Ago

• 3o Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data

  Michael W. Lynch

  Building Crisis

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes and Sources

Columns

• Spin This

  Cathy Young

  The trouble with Bill O'Reilly

• Banned in Brisbane

  James Morrow

  Australia is outlawing fun. Who's next?

• Road Show

  Michael W. Lynch

  The rock star and the treasury secretary demonstrate the limits to aid.

Features

• Needing the Unnecessary

  James B. Twitchell

  The democratization of luxury

• Forever Young

  Ronald Bailey

  The new scientific search for immortality

• Sins of the Fathers

  Thomas Szasz

  Is child molestation a sickness or a crime?

• Off the Books

  W. Michael Cox & Richard Alm

  The benefits of free enterprise that economic statistics miss

Culture & Reviews

• Traces of Genius

  Charles Paul Freund

  Is art sullied by technology?

• Big Daddy

  Michael Valdez Moses

  The dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America.

• My Sweet Bore

  Nick Gillespie

  Explaining a former Beatle's artistic slide

• Misunderstanding Media

  Jesse Walker

  We all swim the torrent.

• Knave of Torts

  Michael McMenamin

  Cooler coffee for $3 million and other lawyer bargains

Artifacts

• Artifact: Dolled Up

  Charles Paul Freund

  Authoritarian regimes play make-believe