February 2008

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: A Better Choice

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Anti-China Town

  Kerry Howley

  Free trade and Florida

• Cut Taxes and Spend

  Brian Doherty

  The beast still eats

• Mortgage Crisis

  David Weigel

  Subprime solutions

• Hit the Breaks

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Truth in advertising

• Gun Crazy

  Jacob Sullum

  'Curing' campus dissent

• House of Death

  Radley Balko

  Feds shield snitches

• Drugged Up

  Kerry Howley

  Insane asylum seekers?

• Losing Our Initiative

  Brian Doherty

  State's Wrongs

• Home Invasion

  Jacob Sullum

  California's new smoking bans

• Kangaroo Feast

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  The Other Red Meat

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Prisoner of Pain

  Radley Balko

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  February 1978

Data

• Data: Safe, Legal, and Rare

  Ronald Bailey

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Unconstitutional Conventions

  Andrew Napolitano

Columns

• The Virtues of Conspicuous Giving

  Greg Beato

  How self-righteous, empty-headed celebrities promote private charity

• The Accidental Congressman

  David Weigel

  The surprising success and strict constitutionalism of Georgia Rep. Paul Broun

• Rant: The Statue of Security

  Shawn Macomber

  You won't find much liberty at Lady Liberty.

Features

• Legacies of Injustice

  Shikha Dalmia

  Alumni preferences threaten educational equity--and no one seems to care.

• Scenes from the Ron Paul Revolution

  Brian Doherty

  The rise of an eclectic anti-statist movement

Interviews

• 'You Can't Turn Back the Ocean'

  Nick Gillespie

  MTV's Kurt Loder on the delusions of celebrity culture, the coming collapse of mainstream media outlets, and the rising tide of free expression that can't be stopped

• Ending Global Apartheid

  Kerry Howley

  Economist Lant Pritchett defends immigration, the least-popular--and most-proven--idea for helping the world's poor.

Culture & Reviews

• Iraq 2011

  Brian Doherty

  A graphic novel shows an Iraq in chaos

• Steve Earle's Hammer

  Jesse Walker

  A talented songwriter puts his message before his music.

Book Reviews

• Open-Source Warfare

  Jim Henley

  How do you defend a country against small stateless bands of terrorists?

Artifacts

• Artifact: The Counterfeit Olympics

  Kerry Howley