August/September 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Robert Heinlein's Continuing Relevance

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Insecurity Complex

  Kerry Howley

  Myths of job volatility

• No Need for Speed

  David Weigel

  A town re-regulates its roads

• Regulate Thyself

  Kerry Howley

  The FTC doesn't step in

• Food Waste

  Jacob Sullum

  Foreign aid inefficiency

• Testing Medal

  Brian Doherty

  The DOJ targets e-gold

• Driving While Armed

  Jacob Sullum

  The ACLU defends gun rights

• Nowhere to Go

  Radley Balko

  Trapped in Gitmo

• Policing Immigrants

  Brian Doherty

  Californians force enforcement

• Northern Lights Out

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Canada bans bulbs

• Free at Last

  Radley Balko

  The Innocence Project hits 200

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  In Praise of Digital Disorder

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  August 1977

Data

• Data

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  A Nation on the Dole

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Political BS

Columns

• Rant: Tony the Nanny

  Brendan O'Neill

  Tony Blair's shameful record on civil liberties

• Jerry Falwell's Paradoxical Legacy

  Cathy Young

  Political victories and cultural failures

• The Real Bill Richardson

  David Weigel

  Is the presidential contender a libertarian Democrat?

Features

• The Limits of Anti-Kelo Legislation

  Ilya Somin

  Reformers are trying to outlaw eminent domain abuse. But will the laws they're passing be effective?

• Dying for Lifesaving Drugs

  Kerry Howley

  Will desperate patients destroy the pharmaceutical system that produces tomorrow's treatments?

• Robert Heinlein at 100

  Brian Doherty

  How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist world.

Interviews

• Our Intangible Riches

  Ronald Bailey

  World Bank economist Kirk Hamilton on the planet's real wealth.

Culture & Reviews

• The Right to Own a Bazooka

  Peter Bagge

• From UNIVAC to Google

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  A computer in every kitchen?

• The Fetishist Next Door

  Greg Beato

  The all-American appeal of Bettie Page

Book Reviews

• Hitler's Handouts

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Inside the Nazis' welfare state

• Getting Beyond Roe

  Radley Balko

  Why returning abortion to the states is a good idea

Artifacts

• Artifact: When Coinages Clash

  Brian Doherty