December 2006

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: The Grand Old Party's Over.

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Depressed Markets?

  Will Wilkinson

  Happiness and free trade

• Casual Sex, Sunni Style

  Tim Cavanaugh

  "Visit" marriages

• Fried Messages

  Jacob Sullum

  Your brain on anti-drug ads

• Zero Sense

  Brian Doherty

  Draconian school policies

• Registration Required

  Kerry Howley

  You too can be a sex offender

• Tracking Wild Pork

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Stevens spending snafu

• Tom's Last Cigarette

  Jacob Sullum

  Toons go cold turkey

• Organic Panic

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Border closing chokes farms

• March of the Moles

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Surveilling Americans

• Big Easy Choice

  Lisa Snell

  Schools in New Orleans

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Kerry Howley

  Narc of the Matinee.

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Hidden Wages

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• How 'Big Nutrition' Destroys Your Will to Fatness

  Greg Beato

  Awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.

• Parent Trap

  Cathy Young

  Are false abuse charges a common tactic in child custody battles?

• Insurgent Republicans

  David Weigel

  The Club for Growth wants to create a free market GOP, whether the party likes it or not.

Features

• A Healthy Dose of Anarchy

  Neille Ilel

  After Katrina, nontraditional, decentralized relief steps in where big government and big charity failed.

• Throwing the Bums Out

  Shira Toeplitz

  How a small-town businessman sparked an anti-incumbency movement in Pennsylvania--and what it means for national politics.

• The Budget-Cutters Who Couldn't Stop Spending

  Eric Pfeiffer

  The Republican Study Committee, one of the biggest groups in Congress, was created to rein in big spenders. So why can't it deliver?

• The Federal Budget's Long Emergency

  Veronique de Rugy

  Got a boondoggle you're not proud of? Stick it in a supplemental appropriations bill.

Interviews

• South Park Libertarians

  Nick Gillespie & Jesse Walker

  Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion.

Symposiums

• Who Deserves the Libertarian Vote?

  Katherine Mangu-Ward & David Weigel

  Reason asks Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians why supporters of "Free Minds and Free Markets" should vote for their candidates.

Culture & Reviews

• Art Deco at Ground Zero

  Todd Seavey

  Five years after 9/11, how about a design actual human beings might like?

• When Piracy Becomes Promotion

  Henry Jenkins

  How unauthorized copying made Japanese animation profitable in the United States.

Book Reviews

• Apocalypse's Eternal Return

  Brian Doherty

  Hipster guru predicts: Capitalism will destroy the world!

• Wonder-Working Power

  Daniel McCarthy

  The roots and the reach of the religious right.