January 1999

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Society depends on rules. But what sort of rules enliven our world--and what sort stifle it?

Credit Where It's Due

Is the credit card market insufficiently competitive?

Michael W. Lynch
The Slave and the Intern

Jefferson's hypocrisy--and Clinton's

Nick Gillespie
Party Poopers

Why the Republicans deserved to lose

Virginia Postrel

Gender War Crimes

Classifying offenses against women as "hate crimes" is a dangerous political game.

Cathy Young
Constitutional Challenge

Repealing the 16th Amendment wouldn't kill the income tax.

David B. Levenstam
Capital Letters: Coat-Check Time

In which our man in Washington endures Republican victory rituals.

Michael W. Lynch
Sluggers Row

How to turn cultural progress--and good, clean fun--into racist calamity

Thomas W. Hazlett
Dark Bedfellows

Postmoderns and traditionalists unite against the Enlightenment

Walter Olson

The Good Soldier

Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain certainly is a man of honor. But is he a man of principle?

Michael W. Lynch
Dense Thinkers

"New Urbanism," the latest fad in urban planning, promises less traffic, better air, and lower taxes. Here's what it really delivers.

Randal O'Toole