August-September 2010

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Editor's Note

• The Death of Neoliberalism

  Matt Welch

  Pro-market Democrats disappeared just when we needed them most.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Needs More RAM

  Radley Balko

  Another drug raid gone bad

• Life for Poker

  Jacob Sullum

  The arrest of online gambling entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff

• Pot Tolerance Hits a High

  Jacob Sullum

  Follow-up on Reason's June 1993 cover story

• So Long, Hookahs

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Michigan smoking ban

• Crushing Censorship

  Jacob Sullum

  First Amendment victory

• Tilted Windmills

  Ronald Bailey

  Ted Kennedy was right

• Drop That Camera!

  Brian Doherty

  Snapshot rights

• Beer Buys Busted

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Protecting alcohol monopolies

• Mail Order

  Peter Suderman

  Electronic privacy breach

• Sex Ed Offender

  Radley Balko

  Put down the banana

• Uninsured? Pay Up!

  Peter Suderman

  Health care fines

• The War on Toys

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Happy Meal hysteria

• Bad Apple

  Brian Doherty

  iNvestigating journalists

Soundbites

• How Much Government Is Enough?

  Jeremy Lott

  An interview with John Samples

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• ObamaCare and the Constitution

Columns

• Peak Everything

  Ronald Bailey

  Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorous?

• Internet Addiction

  Greg Beato

  What once was parody may soon be diagnosis.

• Arrest Everybody

  Jacob Sullum

  Arizona encourages police to emulate “the toughest sheriff in America.”

• A Drug Raid Goes Viral

  Radley Balko

  A violent police raid posted on YouTube sparks outrage—but the only thing unusual was that it was caught on video.

• Spending Can Be Cut

  Veronique de Rugy

  Politicians who tell you democracies can’t slash spending are lying.

• Mystery Train

  Tim Cavanaugh

  How has California’s high-speed rail project survived for 14 years without a plan, a budget, or a single accomplishment?

Features

• The Persecution of Gilbert Arenas

  Daniel Wattenberg

  How gun prohibitionists and an image-conscious NBA scapegoated a basketball star

• Teachers Unions vs. Online Education

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Kids live on the Internet. Why aren’t they learning online too?

• Where Do Libertarians Belong?

  Brink Lindsey, Jonah Goldberg & Matt Kibbe

  A reason Debate

Interviews

• Unions ‘Own the Democratic Party’

  Nick Gillespie

  Contrarian author, blogger, and senatorial candidate Mickey Kaus on interest-group politics, immigration, and the Velvet Underground

Culture & Reviews

• A Libertarian Rebel

  Cathy Young

  Ridley Scott gets Robin Hood right.

• I.M.P.

  Peter Bagge

  An abbreviated retelling of the life of Isabel Mary Paterson, Part I.

• The Age of Limbaugh

  Jesse Walker

  When politics and popular entertainment collide

• The Defector

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Christopher Hitchens’ memoir details a lifetime in combat journalism

Briefly Noted

• Cuddly Angel of Death

  Jacob Sullum

• The Art of War

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Revolting Food Revolution

  Nick Gillespie

• Watching the Watchers

  Radley Balko

• The Redhead Roundup

  Radley Balko

Artifact

• Bureaucratic Brownies

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  In which the Pentagon holds a bake sale to build a bomber.