January 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Credit Where It's Due

  Michael W. Lynch

  Is the credit card market insufficiently competitive?

• The Slave and the Intern

  Nick Gillespie

  Jefferson's hypocrisy--and Clinton's

• Party Poopers

  Virginia Postrel

  Why the Republicans deserved to lose

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Frog=Beer=Woman

  Charles Paul Freund

• Leak Proof

  Mariel Garza

• Dry Spell

  James V. DeLong

• Joe Blow

  Jacob Sullum

• Continuing State of Emergency

  Michael W. Lynch

• Greener, Not Warmer

  Jeff Taylor & Michael W. Lynch

• Limo Limits

  Michael W. Lynch

• Elaine's Closet

  Nick Gillespie

• Draft Dodgers

  Rick Henderson

• Poll Vault

  Ryan H. Sager

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Sources

• Sources

Columns

• Gender War Crimes

  Cathy Young

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

• Constitutional Challenge

  David B. Levenstam

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

• Capital Letters: Coat-Check Time

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington endures Republican victory rituals.

• Sluggers Row

  Thomas W. Hazlett

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

• Dark Bedfellows

  Walter Olson

  Postmoderns and traditionalists unite against the Enlightenment

Features

• The Good Soldier

  Michael W. Lynch

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

• Dense Thinkers

  Randal O'Toole

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

• The Bonds of Life

  Virginia Postrel

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

Book Reviews

• Hooked on Fantasies

  Glenn Garvin

• The Advantages of Ownership

  John Nye

• Truth Believer

  Jonathan Rauch

• The Libertarian Quartet

  Richard Epstein