February 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Christian Rock

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• PATRIOT Games

  Brian Doherty

  Protecting civil liberties

• Space Pork

  Jeremy Lott

  NASA watch

• Train Wreck

  Jeff Taylor

  Deriding the rails

• Club Anarchy

  Jesse Walker

  Why high school sucks

• Naked Retreat

  Michael W. Lynch

  Not in Kansas anymore

• Cuban Confusion

  Sam MacDonald

  Embargoed truths

• Mission Creep

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Defining terrorism

• Testing Frenzy

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Drug war idiocy

• Weak Choice

  Sara Rimensnyder

  The abortion pill

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Dismal Humanists

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago

Data

• Data: Oil Change

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Excluded Evidence

  Cathy Young

  The dark side of rape shield laws

• Misunderestimating the Public

  Sam MacDonald

  Press gatekeepers may fret about information, but the average Joe is swimming in it.

• Rant: Service Economy

  Tim Cavanaugh

  First-draft suggestions for a real draft proposal.

Features

• Threatened by Success

  Joanne Jacobs

  One charter school's fight against the education establishment.

• The Media and GI Joe

  Chris Bray

  How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters.

• Watching the Numbers

  Joanne Jacobs

  Unlike district schools, Edison Charter must succeed to survive.

• Prescription Panic

  Mike Godwin

  How the anthrax scare challenged drug patents.

Culture & Reviews

• Teen-Demon Tracts

  Chris Lehmann

  Why baby-boomer parents fear their children.

• Uneasy Ride

  Jesse Walker

  The cultural contradictions of Charlie Daniels.

• Gilligan vs. Homer Simpson

  Nick Gillespie

  Pop culture gets globalized.

• The Potato Whisperer

  Todd Seavey

  Surprising wisdom from a greenish gardener.

Book Reviews

• Debunking Green Myths

  Ronald Bailey

  An environmentalist gets it right.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Aesthetic Karma

  Charles Paul Freund