February 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Mental Failings

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• When Libertarians Gather...

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Great Firewall of China

  Brian Doherty

  War on cybercafé society

• Capitalists, Unite!

  Charles Paul Freund

  Closing the little red book

• Dangerous Assumption

  Jacob Sullum

  Sex offender registration

• Your Papers, Please

  Jesse Walker

  New frontiers in decentralization

• Zoning Speech

  Jesse Walker

  Freedom of assembly under fire

• Guilt Tip

  Ronald Bailey

• Birds Do It

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Sex in the classroom

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Drawing 9/11

  Sara Rimensnyder

Data

• DATA: All the Presidents' Employees

  Brian Doherty

Brickbats

• Daily Brickbat

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Consciousness Raising 101

  Cathy Young

  Inside the gender studies classroom.

• Liberal Martyrdom in Iran

  Charles Paul Freund

  An academic takes on the ayatollahs.

• The Spirit of '73

  Tim Cavanaugh

  An absurd nostalgia sweeps the globe.

Features

• Jesus Sells

  Jeremy Lott

  What the Christian culture industry tells us about secular society.

• The Battle for Your Brain

  Ronald Bailey

  Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind?

• Wrecking Property Rights

  Sam Staley

  How cities use eminent domain to seize property for private developers.

Culture & Reviews

• Wherever Green Is Worn?

  Michael Valdez Moses

  Multiculturalism in contemporary Ireland.

• Big Schlock Candy Mountain

  Charles Paul Freund

  The many meanings of Mount Rushmore.

• Gone With the Vote

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  For the GOP in the South, Re-construction isn't quite over.

• Scourge of the Booboisie

  Jack Shafer

  Weighing H.L. Mencken's legacy.

• Learning to Love the Bomb

  Steve Chapman

  Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous?

• Liberating Late Night

  Steve Kurtz

  Saturday Night Live vs. the censors.

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Loot Box