January 2000

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Editor's Note

• Boom and Gloom

  Nick Gillespie

  Accentuating the negative in an age of plenty.

• Editor's Note

  Virginia Postrel

• High-Tech's Starr Report

  Virginia Postrel

  The consequences of a software culture war.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Betrayed Principals

  Mariel Garza

• Anti-Milk Men

  Jacob Sullum

• Futile Resistance

  Jacob Sullum

• Pissing Contest

  Jacob Sullum

• Gangsta Cops

  Jesse Walker

• Data: Info Gap

  Michael W. Lynch

• Hair Trigger

  Michael W. Lynch

• Cybersquat Thrusts

  Ryan H. Sager

• Permission Slip

  Ryan H. Sager

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Daily Brickbat

  Charles Oliver

  Absurd news bites, served fresh every day.

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

  Absurd news bites, served fresh every day.

Quotes

• Quote

Columns

• No-Publicity Stunts

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington goes where other reporters are too jaded to tread.

• Brooklyn Bums

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Welfare reform for artists.

• Puff, the Magic Settlement

  Walter Olson

  The joy of enormous tobacco fees.

Features

• Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott

  Jacob Sullum & Michael W. Lynch

  Economist John Lott discusses the benefits of guns--and the hazards of pointing them out.

• Crop Busters

  Michael Fumento

  Self-righteous vandals lead a desperate, ill-informed campaign against genetically modified foods.

• Rampaging Toward Choice

  Michael W. Lynch

  Why parents in Washington, D.C., are embracing vouchers and charter schools--and what that says about public schools.

• Code Breakers

  Max Schulz

  The GOP has forsaken Reagan's tax message.

• Unlocking the Cells

  Ronald Bailey

  DNA technology frees the innocent as well as convicting the guilty.

• Electric Visions

  Ryan Oprea

  Unleashing the market for power.

• Broadband and the Beast

  Ryan H. Sager

  "Open access" regulations may delay faster Internet connections.

Culture & Reviews

• The First Web

  Bryan Alexander

• Jedediah the Ironist

  Jesse Walker

• Not-So-Grand Inquests

  Keith E. Whittington

Artifact

• Artifact: Photo Finish

  Charles Paul Freund