February 2001

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Editor's Notes

• Bill Clinton's Exit Interviews

  Nick Gillespie

  The outgoing president enters his final spin cycle.

Letters

• Letters

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: The Missionary's Positions

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Venus at the Ballot Box

  Cathy Young

  Women may lean toward the "Mommy State," but their politics are more complex than pundits recognize.

• Campaign 2000's Real Civics Lesson

  Jesse Walker

  How this race busts the four greatest election myths.

• Capital Letters: Stand By Your Men

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington talks to raucous protesters, spies Al Sharpton's corpse, and seeks spiritual guidance from the Falun Dafa.

Features

• Doctor's Orders

  Brian Doherty

  Parents battle medical authorities for control of their children.

• Where the Boys Are

  Cathy Young

  Is America shortchanging male children?

• Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man Show

  Jesse Walker

  A legendary experimental filmmaker turns up on cable TV.

• Take Me to Your Leader

  Sam MacDonald

  A huge annual gathering of hippies freaks out the National Forest Service

Culture & Reviews

• Do What I Wilt

  Brian Doherty

  The individualist authoritarianism of Aleister Crowley

• The Poet As Politician

  Michael Valdez Moses

  The ideological odyssey of W.B. Yeats

• Two Men Who Would Be King

  Paul A. Cantor

  Bill Clinton vs. Elvis Presley vs. America

• Room to Grow

  Sam Staley

  What's so bad about the suburbs?