August/September 2011

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Editor's Note

• The Day Everything Continued to Change

  Matt Welch

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

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Education Showdown

Citings

• Ancient ASBOs

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Behavioral bans of old

• Peace and the Press

  Ronald Bailey

  Media bolster social cohesion

• Counterfeit Conviction

  Brian Doherty

  Liberty Dollar prosecution

• Applebee’s Welfare

  Tim Cavanaugh

  California cities going broke

• Poker Bust

  Jacob Sullum

  Online gambling indictment

• Peanuts on a Plane

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  No flying nuts?

• Go Get Google?

  Peter Suderman

  Tech-sector antitrust wars

• Peace Nixed

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Antiwar movement retreats

• Porn Pause

  Jacob Sullum

  Obscene investigations

• Detention Deficit

  Brian Doherty

  Gitmo files tell all

• Design Dangers

  Damon W. Root

  Occupational licensing lunacy

• Revolution Redux

  Follow-Up

Soundbites

• Boxing Professor Keynes

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Civil Battles Ahead

Columns

• Natural Gas Flip-Flop

  Ronald Bailey

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

• The Eternal Fallout Shelter

  Greg Beato

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

• The Red/Blue Paradox

  Veronique de Rugy

  Why do liberal states give while conservative states take?

• Home Insecurity

  Jacob Sullum

  Two privacy cases hit us where we live.

Features

• The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex

  Jerry Brito & Tate Watkins

  The feds erect a bureaucracy to combat a questionable threat.

• The Declaration of Independents

  Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

  Meet the future of American politics.

• Fear of a Muslim America

  Cathy Young

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

• Cut the Debt By Cutting Government

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

Culture & Reviews

• Why Art Failed Us After 9/11

  Nick Gillespie

  Trying to make sense of senselessness

• Bollywood vs. Jihad

  Shikha Dalmia

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

• Spray Paint the Walls

  Greg Beato

  Graffiti, art, and advertising

• Temptations of Empire

  John Payne

  Two new studies reveal the inherent instability of imperialism.

• Fair Tax or Foul?

  Tim Cavanaugh

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

Briefly Noted

• Freakonomics: The Movie

  Jacob Sullum

• A John’s Life

  Brian Doherty

• The Taxman As Literature

  Peter Suderman

• Guards Keep California in Lockdown

  Tim Cavanaugh

• Green Rush

  Jacob Sullum

Artifact

• Where’s Hillary?

  Jacob Sullum

  The female unperson.