February 1996

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Editor's Notes

• Sacking Markets

  Nick Gillespie

  Don't blame capitalism for football's woes

• Bloc Busters

  Virginia Postrel

  Conservatives' sudden discomfort with markets threatens the GOP coalition

Letters

• Letters

• Letters

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• Letters

• Letters

• Letters

Citings

• The Adarand Aftermath

  Brian Doherty

  Cracks in the dam of racial set-asides

• Subtle Impact

  Ed Carson

  Airbags' effect on driving behavior

• Who's Essential?

  Ed Carson

  Lessons from the government shutdown.

• Picket Fences

  Ed Carson

  Can government keep up with changes in how we work?

• Rental Rights

  Ed Carson

  Landlords and tenants team up.

• Hitting the (Financial) Books

  Rick Henderson

  Investing in, not lending to, college students

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Young & Arrestless

  T. Markus Funk

  The case against expunging juvenile arrest records

• Corporate Rakeovers

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Sacking it to the souless corporation

• Big Mistake

  Brink Lindsey

  When Progressive intellectuals convinced Americans that bigger is best--for business, labor, and government--they corrupted capitalism and dumbed down work. We're finally correcting their error, but at a price.

• Child's Play

  Carolyn Lochhead

  The budget debate is deceiving Americans about the fiscal future.

• Private Life

  Eric Lyman

  How privatization is helping to revive Peru

• Tobacco Row

  Michael McMenamin

  A "don't ask, don't tell" policy for journalists

• View Masters

  Nick Gillespie

  The audience's power over media's message

• The 7.63 Percent Solution

  Tama Starr

  A small contractor learns affirmative action arithmetic

Book Reviews

• Losing Argument

  James K. Glassman

• End Games

  John Hood

• Reaching for Roots

  James G. Lennox

• Who Ordered That?

  Steven R. Postrel