December 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: The Deep Politics of Freedom

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Observing Orwell

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Big brother was watching

• X Crops

  Ronald Bailey

  Mutants for biotech

• Flat Tax Fever

  Michael C. Moynihan

  European tax revolution

• Good Neighbors

  David Weigel

  Is capitalism contagious?

• Price Pilgrims

  Kerry Howley

  Immigration on the cheap

• Ganging Up

  Radley Balko

  Gang violence KO'd

• Pill Palaces?

  Jacob Sullum

  'Drug-infested schools'

• Magic Trade Tricks

  Brian Doherty

  IP Vanishing Act

• Gimme More

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Earmark free-for-all

• A Dirty Job

  Jacob Sullum

  Paid to watch porn

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Terrified of Libel Litigation

  Kelly Jane Torrance

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  December 1977

Data

• Data: Green Acres

  Kerry Howley

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Fools for Scandal

  Dan Savage

Columns

• This Is John Campbell Speaking

  David Weigel

  Can a pork-busting Randian lead the GOP?

• Rant: Unconnected Dots

  Jeff Taylor

  Why the FBI failed to stop 9/11

• Say You Love Santa

  Greg Beato

  Pop culture's war on secularists

Features

• The Party of Jefferson

  Damon W. Root

  What the Democrats can learn from a dead libertarian lawyer

• The Liberal Candidate

  David Weigel

  Is Rudy Giuliani a new Barry Goldwater or a new Bobby Kennedy?

• Thank Deng Xiaoping for Little Girls

  Jacob Sullum

  The tyrannical roots of China's international adoption program

Culture & Reviews

• Atlas Shrugged at 50

  Brian Doherty

  What the American right could learn from a Russian novelist

• McCain: No Surrender!

  Matt Welch

  For John McCain, critical inquiry stops at the water's edge.

• Let the Viewer Decide

  Jesse Walker

  Documentarian Frederick Wiseman on free speech, complexity, and the trouble with Michael Moore

Book Reviews

• The Great Depression

  Will Wilkinson

  Is an epidemic of depressive disorder really sweeping America?

• No Money, No Justice

  Radley Balko

  Do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets?

Artifacts

• Artifact: Warhol Goes to China

  Charles Paul Freund