December 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Free expression forever!

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Privacy in the Skies

  Brian Doherty

  CAPPS II: the sequel.

• Queen of Persia

  Charles Paul Freund

  Rock in the lap of the gods.

• Induce Vomiting

  Hanah Metchis

  Banning peer-to-peer networks.

• Ad Blockers

  Jacob Sullum

  Politicians vs. free speech

• Easy Target

  Jacob Sullum

  Anti-gun litigation

• Illegal Music

  Julian Sanchez

  The war on sampling.

• Lost in Transition

  Julian Sanchez

  The costs of tighter borders.

• Liberal Demographic

  Jesse Walker

  Clear Channel turns left.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Julian Sanchez

  Politicizing the Web

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Wage Wars

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Martial Vices

  Cathy Young

  Zell Miller's un-American view of the armed forces.

• Rant: War of Addition

  Jeff Taylor

  The Pentagon's manpower crunch.

• Biased about Bias

  Matt Welch

  The hunt for ideology becomes an ideology.

Features

• Revolt of the Porcupines!

  Brian Doherty

  The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a revolutionary plan or a pipe dream?

• Disney's War Against the Counterculture

  Bob Levin

  Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever.

• The Reluctant Planner

  Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker & Drew Clark

  FCC Chairman Michael Powell on indecency, innovation, consolidation, and competition.

• The First Free State Project

  Jackson Kuhl

  The brief, tumultuous history of Franklin.

Culture & Reviews

• Severed Heads

  Charles Paul Freund

  Arab literary fantasy and terrible reality.

• Poor, Sexy Berlin

  Dave Copeland

  The failure of urban planning.

• Indefensible Internment

  Eric Muller

  There was no good reason for the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.

• Hippie Heaven

  Nick Gillespie

  The liberating legacy of those "hideous, spotty little teenagers"

• Love and Memory and Humanity

  Nick Gillespie

  Magician and novelist Penn Jillette on censorship, sock monkeys, and Bullshit!

Artifacts

• Artifact: Dirty Pictures

  Charles Paul Freund