August/September 2011

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Trying to make sense of senselessness

The Day Everything Continued to Change

An overlooked lesson of 9/11: America’s strength is based on dynamism.

Matt Welch

Natural Gas Flip-Flop

Big environmental groups were for fracking before they were against it.

Ronald Bailey
The Eternal Fallout Shelter

We’re still living in the wake left by Cold War civil defense hysteria.

Greg Beato
The Red/Blue Paradox

Why do liberal states give while conservative states take?

Veronique de Rugy
Home Insecurity

Two privacy cases hit us where we live.

Jacob Sullum

The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex

The feds erect a bureaucracy to combat a questionable threat.

Jerry Brito & Tate Watkins
The Declaration of Independents

Meet the future of American politics.

Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch
Fear of a Muslim America

In the fight against radical Islam, conservatives are trying to limit the property and speech rights of peaceful American Muslims.

Cathy Young
Cut the Debt By Cutting Government

The first Reason-Rupe Poll shows a country more radical than its politicians.

Bollywood vs. Jihad

Which is the bigger threat to fundamentalist Islam: the Pentagon or Mumbai?

Shikha Dalmia
Spray Paint the Walls

Graffiti, art, and advertising

Greg Beato
Temptations of Empire

Two new studies reveal the inherent instability of imperialism.

John Payne
Fair Tax or Foul?

The promise and peril of changing the way we pay for government

Tim Cavanaugh