December 2001

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Fair Weather Idealists

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Desert Censorship

  Brian Doherty

  Artistic paradise lost?

• Spectrum Shortage?

  Jesse Walker

  Governing the ether

• Counter-Surveillance

  Brian Doherty

  Don't try this at home

• Ye Olde Jazz

  Brian Doherty

  Strike down the band

• Follow That Car

  Jeremy Lott

  Gas tax alternative

• God-Worthy Pop

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Iranian rock 'n' roll

• Hole Tax

  Michael W. Lynch

  The people's right to golf

• Dotty Idea

  Rhys Southan

  Web Playgrounds

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Sam MacDonald

  A Different Sort of Conservative Muslim

Data

• Data

  Michael W. Lynch

  Migration Math

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Liberty's Paradoxes

  Cathy Young

  Must We Surrender Freedoms in Order to Remain Free?

• Drugs and Thugs

  Jacob Sullum

  The U.S. Subsidy for Terrorists

• What Are We Marchin' For?

  Sam MacDonald

  Anti-war protesters offer everything -- but an alternative.

• Ironic Engagement

  Tim Cavanaugh

  The Hidden Agenda of the Anti-Ironists

Features

• The Decline and Fall of the First Global Economy

  Brink Lindsey

  How nationalism, protectionism, and collectivism spawned a century of dictatorship and war.

• Post-Scarcity Prophet

  Ronald Bailey

  Economist Paul Romer on growth, technological change, and an unlimited human future.

Symposiums

• Guarding the Home Front

  Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism?

Culture & Reviews

• 2001 Nights

  Charles Paul Freund

  The end of the Orientalist critique

• Lobotomies, Socialist and Capitalist

  Jesse Walker

  A gossipy journey from left to right.

• Free Your Radio

  Jesse Walker

  Three liberties we've lost to the FCC.

• Revolutionary Book

  Mark Goldblatt

  Did the vernacular Bible create individual liberty?

• Pornocopia Deluxe

  Nick Gillespie

  Behind the triumph of erotica

• The New Cold War

  Nick Gillespie

  American cultural identity after September 11

Artifacts

• Artifact: Amateur Hour

  Jesse Walker