December 2008

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Editor's Notes

• Back to the Barricades

  Matt Welch

  Free markets are under attack again.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Lo-Cal So-Cal?

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Menu labeling laws

• Preschool Failures

  Lisa Snell

  Missing benefits

• College Dry

  Jacob Sullum

  Drinking age debate

• Innocence Denied

  Radley Balko

  DNA testing stalled

• Empire Bloat

  David Weigel

  Bases, bases everywhere

• The Peacemaker

  Radley Balko

  Sheriffs with tanks

• Making Laws Free

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Man, to state: Copyright this!

• The Halfway Mark

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Yellow Peril

  David Weigel

  Racist stare decisis

• Designing Women

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Decorative cartel

• Auditing the Auditors

  Jacob Sullum

  Medicare fraud

Soundbites

• Sterilized by the State

  Damon W. Root

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in reason

  December 1978

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Groovier and Groovier

  Robert Poole

Columns

• Are You Better off Than You Were 40 Years Ago?

  Veronique de Rugy

  Government has grown, but freedom has grown faster.

• Atlas Blinked

  David Weigel

  Fiscally conservative Republicans were lost at sea in the Panic of 2008

• The Schnorrer State

  Jacob Sullum

  The accomplishments Ted Stevens brags about are worse than the crimes he denies.

• The Spin We Love to Hate

  Greg Beato

  Do we really want news without a point of view?

• Stop the Journalismisms!

  Tim Cavanaugh

  The media business is chock full of platitudes, most of them wrong.

Features

• Speculation, Innovation, Regulation

  Ronald Bailey

  40 years of covering science and technology

• The Libertarian Moment

  Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

  Despite all leading indicators to the contrary, America is poised to enter a new age of freedom.

• How the Second Amendment Was Restored

  Brian Doherty

  The inside story of how a gang of libertarian lawyers made constitutional history

• 40 Years of Free Minds and Free Markets

  Brian Doherty

  An oral history of reason

Interviews

• The Old-School Individualist

  Ben Malisow

  Independent game designer Jeff Vogel on putting morality into play

Culture & Reviews

• Sharks Stuffed With Money

  Nick Gillespie

  The curious economics of contemporary art

Book Reviews

• What's the Matter With Libertarians?

  Jesse Walker

  Thomas Frank blames the freedom movement for Jack Abramoff and George W. Bush

• Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction.

Artifacts

• The Look of reason

  Katherine Mangu-Ward