December 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: The Reason for Reason

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Do Your Own Thing Unto Others

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Economic Education

  Julian Sanchez

  Skyrocketing college costs

• Carry On

  Jacob Sullum

  Concealed weapon laws

• Moving Violation

  Jacob Sullum

  Redmond's ad restrictions

• What's Left

  Julian Sanchez

  Libertarians for Dean

• A Bolshie Born Every Minute

  Jesse Walker

  Defrauding the left

• Time Enough for Love

  Matt Welch

  Heinlein's new oldie

• Dueling Discriminations

  Rachel Alembakis

  Religion vs. gender

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Agency Provocateur

  Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Music Meltdown

  Nick Gillespie

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Divorcées and Social Engineers

  Cathy Young

  Fathers face off against the marriage movement.

• Misreading Millennials

  Julian Sanchez

  The politics of a rising generation

• Rant: Drug Rush

  Limbaugh to listeners: I belong in jail!

Features

• 35 Heroes of Freedom

  Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968

• 35 Years of reason

  A history in excerpts

• Poor Man's Hero

  Nick Gillespie

  Controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world.

• The Smaller the Better

  Ronald Bailey

  The limitless promise of nanotechnology -- and the growing peril of a moratorium.

Culture & Reviews

• Bob Barr, Civil Libertarian

  Jesse Walker

  The right wing of the ACLU

• Live From Chapel Perilous

  Jesse Walker

  We're living in Robert Anton Wilson's world

• Balls

  Matt Welch

  The joy of watching ideas win.

• Orient Obsess

  Michael Young

  A lackluster look at Americans abroad

Artifacts

• Artifact: Tanks and Tales

  Charles Paul Freund