February 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Control Freaks

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Principal Stalin

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Sweatshops Forever

  Ronald Bailey

  Oppression rasies wages

• Only Rock 'n' Roll?

  Brandon Turner

  Radio killed the Soviet star

• No-Confidence Votes

  Julian Sanchez

  Copyrights vs. public debate

• Junkman Jailed

  Jesse Walker

  Is outsider art a crime?

• Where the Wild Suits Are

  Jesse Walker

  Satire as "libel"

• Alt Business

  Matt Welch

  Mags for adult rockers

• Bad Report Card

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Strange study habits at GAO

• Sins of Wages

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Living wages, killing restaurants

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Patriot vs. PATRIOT Act

  Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason:

Data

• Data: Big-Spender Bush

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Hating Jews

  Cathy Young

  When do anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism overlap?

• Rant: Political Body Snatchers

  Tim Cavanaugh

  How can you tell the evil party from the stupid party?

• A Week of Eating Dangerously

  Neil Steinberg

  Searching for détente between man and beast

Features

• In Defense of Derivatives

  Gene Callahan & Greg Kaza

  Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth.

• "Dominate. Intimidate. Control."

  James Bovard

  The sorry record of the Transportation Security Administration

• Injustice by Default

  Matt Welch

  How the effort to catch "deadbeat dads" ruins innocent men's lives

Culture & Reviews

• Goodbye, Space Child

  Charles Paul Freund

  The space age's bureaucratic dreams sputtered out

• Teenage Wasteland

  Carl F. Horowitz

  Critics on the left and right falsely portray kids as passive victims of mass media.

• Every Man a Demiurge

  Jesse Walker

  A matrix of your own

• Bush's Bad Foreign Policy

  Steve Chapman

  Unilateralism and remaking the world don't mix

• In God's Country

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Thanks be to the American Atheist

Artifacts

• Artifact: Visionary Art

  Charles Paul Freund