February 1991

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Editor's Note

• What's Fair in War?

  Virginia Postrel

  Quotas for the military.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Pot Shots

  Jacob Sullum

• Wiseguys

  Charles Oliver

• Indecent Exposure

  Jacob Sullum

• Pressing Freedom

  Rick Henderson

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Planning for Capitalism

  Melanie S. Tammen

  Socialism has failed. Tell the World Bank.

• Looking Left

  Martin Morse Wooster

  The internal contradiction.

• Bush, Buckwheat, and the Budget

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  D.C.'s Little Rascals.

• The Rebirth of Watts

  Raoul Lowery Contreras

  Immigrants' breakthroughs.

• Milking Milken

  Jacob Sullum

  Judge the man, not the era.

• Trading Places

  Rick Henderson

  Economic savages.

• Easy Money

  Blake Hurst

  Getting farmers booked on federal subsidies.

Features

• Black Books

  Steven Carlson

  Life without Ceausescu.

• Smoke and Mirrors

  Jacob Sullum

  Antismoking activists say they're neither elitists nor paternalists. They're fooling themselves.

• No Secrets

  Walter Olson

  Lawyers have discovered many new ways of making you talk.

• What's Up to Doc?

  Stanton Peele

  Where do parental rights end? Anywhere a doctor says.

Book Reviews

• Cloaking Device

  Juliana Geran Pilon

• Static Interference

  Thomas W. Hazlett

• Weird Science

  Charles Oliver

• Carolina in My Mind

  Rick Henderson

• Japanese Agent Man

  Brink Lindsey

Briefly Noted

• Space Enterprise

  Greg Rehmke