December 1998

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Editor's Notes

• Bombs Away

  Nick Gillespie

  Troubling questions about the U.S. attack on Sudan

• The Two Faces of Bill Clinton

  Virginia Postrel

  Is the personal political?

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Baby Food Fight

  Jason Brooks

• Trapping Copycats

  Mariel Garza

• Eggheads

  Michael W. Lynch

• Numbers Game

  Michael W. Lynch

• Paranoid Report

  Michael W. Lynch

• Political Prurience

  Michael W. Lynch

• Power Addicts

  Michael W. Lynch

• Cyberspace March

  Rick Henderson

• Instant Gratification

  Ryan H. Sager

• Transit Troubles

  Sam Staley

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Data

• Data: Numbers on America's Newcomers

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Sources

• Sources

Columns

• How FEMA Fought the Future

  Jodie T. Allen

  Confessions of an emergency "planner"

• Test Anxiety

  Michael Fumento

  Why are environmentalists afraid of pesticide research?

• Hope Springs Paternal

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  What medical reporters think inquiring minds don't need to know

• Piling on the Prez

  Loren Lomasky

  Let Clinton be Clinton!

• Captital Letters: Theaters of Operation

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington encounters show business, Beltway-style, rides uncomfortably into the sunset, and observes "the work of the American people."

• Dial "O" for Outrage

  Walter Olson

  Tales from The Excuse Factory's cutting-room floor

• Gaseous Menace

  Kenneth Silber

  The overblown regulatory anxiety over radon

Features

• When Property Is Theft

  Edwin G. Dolan

  Why Russia's market reform failed--and what to do about it.

• Voices of Reason

  Thirty Years of Interviews

Symposiums

• Yesterday's Tomorrows: 1968-1998

  Books that got the future right--and wrong

Book Reviews

• California Dreaming

  Nick Gillespie

• What's Left?

  Alan Charles Kors

• Rebirth of Cool Cal

  John J. Miller

• Secrets of Success

  Joel Mokyr

Artifacts

• Artifact: His Cartesian Way

  Charles Paul Freund