January 1994

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Editor's Notes

• Canadian Club

  Rick Henderson

  Single-payer systems may be simpler than ClintonCare, but that doesn't make them good.

• Populist Industrial Policy

  Virginia Postrel

  Ideas and their health-care consequences

Print Articles

• Clinton's Protection Racket

  Richard D. Mohr

  The price of health-care "security"

Letters

• Letters

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Washington: Nyah, Nyah, So There

  Rick Henderson

  The Democrats' health-care hate sheet.

• Education: Righting the 'Rithmetic

  John Hood

  Why education statistics don't add up.

• Defense: Recovering From a Tailspin

  Jack Kammer

  Distorting the facts about the sexes in uniform.

• Regulation: Kessler's Log, Supplemental

  Carolyn Lochhead

  The FDA doesn't want you to take your vitamins.

• Child's Play, Too

  Charles Oliver

  Hollywood appeals to its youngest fans.

• Species Argument

  Jeff Taylor

  A little good news about counting animals and grabbing land.

Features

• The Rights Angle

  David Kelley

  The conseqences of a "right" to health care.

Book Reviews

• Playing with Fire

  Jonathan Adler

• Escape from Earth

  Greg Costikyan

• The Curse of the Undead

  John O'Leary

• Southern Discomfort

  John Shelton Reed