December 2000

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Editor's Notes

• The AWOL Electorate

  Nick Gillespie

  What we can learn from "vanishing voters"

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Post No Petitions

  Brian Doherty

• Torture Bearers

  Brian Doherty

• Video Surveillance

  Charles Paul Freund

• Operation Juan Valdez

  Jeff Taylor

• The Coders' Code

  Jeff Taylor

• Pulling the Tap

  Michael W. Lynch

• Citings

• Disarming Harriet Tubman

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Viridian Vexation

  Sara Rimensnyder

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Capital Letters: Stump Speeches

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington sees Dick Cheney check into an old folks' home, watches Bush and Gore debate via proxies, and meets good-looking Libertarians with full sets of teeth.

• The Hassle Factor

  Michael W. Lynch

• The Pursuit of Happiness, Peter Singer interviewed by Ronald Bailey

  Ronald Bailey

Features

• Feed His Head: Reason’s presidential readinglist

• Movers and Shakers

  Joel Kotkin

  How immigrants are reviving neighborhoods given up for dead

• Ballot Tampering

  Jeffrey A. Singer

Culture & Reviews

• Dimness at Noon

  Alan Charles Kors

• Bum Rap

  Brian Doherty

  Lynne Cheney vs. Slim Shady

• Scatterbrained Child Rearing

  Gwen J. Broude

• Tinkers, Tailors, Sellers, Spies

  Jesse Walker

  The case for cautious optimism about the Internet.

• Pink Mice and Petri Dishes

  Ronald Bailey

  Artists contemplate biotechnology

• How to Kill a City

  Tom Peyser