February 2000

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Editor's Notes

• Orphans of Trade

  Nick Gillespie

  How to help all of Cuba's children.

• Seattle Surprise

  Virginia Postrel

  The WTO protests caught free-traders off guard. They shouldn't have.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Blind Profits

  Brian J. Taylor

  Do markets undermine prejudice?

• Forging Protocols

  Charles Paul Freund

• So Much Art

  Charles Paul Freund

• Spare Parts

  James V. DeLong

• Fire Sign

  Jeff Taylor

• Project Echelon

  Jeff Taylor

• Forfeiting Sense

  Jesse Walker

• Y2Kaos

  Mariel Garza

  Absurd news bites, served fresh every day.

• Coffin Fit

  Ryan H. Sager

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Flip Your Whig

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Sources

• Sources

Columns

• Capital Letters: Kids' Beat

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington explores the constitutional status of video games, hears the declinist take on kids, and watches John McCain wow Yalies.

• Wiring Washington

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  How to make a killing in cable.

• Gold Bugs

  Walter Olson

  Class action lawyers discover Silicon Valley.

Features

• Burning Man Grows Up

  Brian Doherty

  Can the nation's premier underground event survive its success?

• Reality Principles: An Interview with John R. Searle

  Steven R. Postrel & Edward Feser

  Eminent philosopher John R. Searle defends free speech, free inquiry, and the Enlightenment.

• Conventional Wisdom

  Jonathan Rauch

  Rediscovering the social norms that stand between law and libertianism.

• The Broken Blue Line

  Jesse Walker

  How to start a riot.

• Pot Stickers

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Indiana tries to punish a marijuana grower twice.

Culture & Reviews

• The Cogs of War

  Michael McMenamin

• Preservation Instincts

  Ronald Bailey

• Muddled Masses

  Stuart Anderson

• That Indie Jones

  Steve Kurtz

Artifacts

• Artifact: Muffled Morph

  Jesse Walker