August/September 2008

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Editor's Notes

• The Uses of Hyperbole

  Matt Welch

  Exaggerated doomsday forecasts are false, regrettable, inevitable, and possibly necessary.

Citings

• Feds in the Fishbowl

  Ronald Bailey

  Whatever floats your boat

• Course Correction

  Kerry Howley

  Classroom interference

• Collateral Damage

  Radley Balko

  Drug informant outrage

• In the Raw

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Contraband milk

• Getting His Goat

  Jacob Sullum

  Religious freedom in Texas

Lists

• List: Rough Gravel

  Mike Gravel

  Three lessons from the 2008 campaign

Columns

• Look Who's Coming in Third!

  David Weigel

  With Bob Barr's nomination, the Libertarian Party is threatening to achieve historical relevance.

• The Afterlife of American Clothes

  Joanne McNeil

  Haitian entrepreneurs find value in our castoffs.

• Carbon-Based Prohibition

  Russell Seitz

  If some environmentalists have their way, simple math suggests life as we know it will end

• First Amendment Lite

  Greg Beato

  How the feds police liquor-related thought crime

• No Child Left Behind

  Jacob Sullum

  Texas abuses children to prevent abuse.

• The (Diminishing) Return of Pandering

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Politicians keep doling out giveaways to a public that increasingly doesn't want any.

Features

• Earning Their Keep

  Laura Vanderkam

  A new breed of urban Catholic high school asks disadvantaged kids to work for their tuition.

Interviews

• An Alliance for Freedom?

  Nick Gillespie

  Republican strategist Grover Norquist insists the Leave Us Alone Coalition is alive and well.

Culture & Reviews

• Remixing Television

  Jesse Walker

  Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground

• The Day the Music Dies

  Timothy B. Lee

  Why your tunes won't PlayForSure

Book Reviews

• Conservatives Against Empire

  W. James Antle, III

  The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right

• Crying Wolf

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Are we all fascists now?

Artifacts

• Artifact: Hope Floats

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Homesteading on the high seas