February 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Four More Years...But of What?

  Nick Gillespie

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Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• San Francisco Unwired

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Boondoggles by the bay.

• Cyberfatwa

  Charles Paul Freund

  Blogger death threats

• Songs of Innocence

  Julian Sanchez

  DNA testing victory

• Negative Action

  Julian Sanchez

  Backfiring racial preferences

• Disappearing Docs

  Jacob Sullum

  DEA painkiller flip-flop

• Civics Lessons

  Julian Sanchez

  Schools frown on political speech.

• The U.N. vs. Cloning

  Ronald Bailey

  Stem cell crackdown

• Three Strikes, Out?

  Matt Welch

  Sea change in California

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Torture and Defeat

  Julian Sanchez

  Seymour Hersh interviewed by Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Money Keeps Talking

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quote and Source

Columns

• The "Values" Panic

  Cathy Young

  The right has no monopoly on morals--or on moral bullying.

• That Old, Tired Balancing Act

  Matt Welch

  Did the election kill objective campaign journalism?

• Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom

  Nick Gillespie

  Is "economic freedom" just another word for nothing left to do?

Features

• Neal Stephenson's Past,Present, and Future

  Mike Godwin

  The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.

• Four More Years!?!?!

  7 high hopes and 7 big fears for Bush's second term.

• Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods

  Stephen Town & Randal O'Toole

  How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility"

Culture & Reviews

• Bridget Jones, Super Spy

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Chick Lit goes to war.

• Humanizing Gun Nuts

  Eric Dzinski

  An anthropologist shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts.

• Our Forgotten Goddess

  Brian Doherty

  Isabel Paterson and the origins of libertarianism.

• Denny the Dullard

  Charles Oliver

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• Doctor Sex, Ph.D.

  Julian Sanchez

  Are we all Kinseyans now?

Artifacts

• Artifact: No Through Street

  Charles Paul Freund