December 1995

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Editor's Notes

• Spare Change

  Rick Henderson

  Real vs. phony political reforms

• Race to the Bottom

  Virginia Postrel

  The conservative fixation on racial categories

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Migration Headaches

  Rick Henderson

  Restrictions on immigration move forward cautiously.

• Going Against the Flow

  Ed Carson

  Free market and environmental organizations fight government garbage monopolies.

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Purging Bingeing

  Ed Carson

  Students will always drink, but colleges can try to control the consequences.

• Presumed Incensed

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Justice for the Juice is justice denied

• Bummer Crop

  Rick Henderson

  "Freedom to Farm" meets the tyranny of the status quo.

Features

• The Good Old Days Are Now

  W. Michael Cox & Richard Alm

  Forget what you've heard about "working harder and getting less." Most Americans have both more leisure and better goods than they did 20 years ago.

• It's a Small, Small World

  Ed Regis

  "Nanotechnology" promises endless abundance courtesy of molecule-manipulating robots. Is that nuts? And do we want it?

• The Contents of Our Character

Book Reviews

• So Who's Counting?

  Brian Doherty

• Computer Downloads

  Nick Gillespie

• Shooting Gallery

  Jacob Sullum