February 2007

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Web Articles

• The Language of Empire

  Nick Gillespie

  How French conquered -- and then lost -- the world

• Can Anyone Fix Lebanon?

  Michael Young

  International aid can't change the climate around Beirut

Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: The Next Two Years

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Shaq Attack

  Radley Balko

  SWAT teams with star power

• Sim Pickings

  Jesse Walker

  Real taxes on virtual worlds

• Antisocial Studies

  Kerry Howley

  Civil rights in Britain

• The Kyoto Poll

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Sanitation beats warming

• Snap, Crackle, Poison?

  Ronald Bailey

  G.M. rice scare

• Supersized Drivers

  Ronald Bailey

  Does fat cause global warming?

• Tax Man of Steel

  Brian Doherty

  Dumping on anti-dumping duties

• Muddy Rules

  Jesse Walker

  When can you curse on TV?

• Universal v. Universal

  Radley Balko

  Copyrights and viral marketing

• No Pictures, Please

  David Weigel

  Speed camera vigilantes

Soundbites

• Soundbite: In Search of the Average American

  Kerry Howley

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

  February 1982

Data

• Where Taxes Are Quickest

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

  February 2007

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Rant: Smile, You're on the Telescreen

  Greg Beato

  Universal surveillance meets universal exhibitionism.

• The Fan Fiction Phenomena

  Cathy Young

  What Faust, Hamlet, and Xena the Warrior Princess have in common.

• Peace on the Border

  David Weigel

  Why anti-immigration conservatives fell flat in 2006

Features

• Pot Clubs in Peril

  Greg Beato

  Are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA?

• After the Damascus Spring

  Guy Taylor

  Syrians search for freedom online.

• Quotations From Chairman Milton

  Brian Doherty

  More than three decades of wisdom from the late champion of liberty, culled from the pages of Reason.

Symposiums

• Divided We Stand

  What to expect from the long-awaited, much-anticipated return of gridlock.

Culture & Reviews

• The National Mall Goes Kitsch

  Radley Balko

  America's cluttered backyard shows just how hard it is for Congress to say "no."

• The Politics of Pants

  Charles Paul Freund

  It was consumers, not marketers, that made jeans a symbol of youthful revolt.

Book Reviews

• Realism, Indignation, and American Foreign Policy

  Michael Young

  A radical and a neoconservative change their political stripes.

• We the Living Dead

  Tim Cavanaugh

  The convoluted politics of zombie cinema

• Our Right to Death

  RU Sirius

  How medical breakthroughs challenge easy answers about suicide.

Artifacts

• A Chilling Tale of Global Warming

  Katherine Mangu-Ward