January 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Erogenous Zones

  Michael W. Lynch

  Uninhibited Web porn

• Staying Well

  Brian Doherty

  No insurance, no health care?

• Seeds of Discord

  Jacob Sullum

  Sowing hemp hysteria

• Sue the Reviewer

  Jesse Walker

  Cyber complainers

• Tasty Animals

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Intellectual property rules

• Free Money

  Rachel Alembakis

  Currency across borders

• Delicious Irony

  Sam MacDonald

  Foot-shooting philanthropy

• Plate Debate

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Political motorists

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Beneficial Bankruptcy

  Sara Rimensnyder

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago

Data

• Data: Army of More Than One

  Michael W. Lynch

• Statistics from the War on Drugs

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• The Feminist West

  Cathy Young

  Acute schizophrenia, left and right

• Trivial Pursuits

  Nick Gillespie

  In defense of the unnamable '90s

• Hear Dick Talk, Occasionally

  Sam MacDonald

  Why Cheney is the Bush administration's best propagandist.

Features

• WHO Cares?

  Brian Doherty

  The World Health Organization cares more about its own life than the lives of the poor.

• Sex, Drugs, and Techno Music

  Jacob Sullum

  Why the rap against Ecstasy has a familiar ring to it

• Battlefield Conversions

  Michael W. Lynch

  Reason talks with three ex-warriors who now fight against the War on Drugs

Culture & Reviews

• Franzen's Folly

  Charles Paul Freund

  The novelist vs. high art's Dark Other.

• Bert and the Infidels

  Dann Halem

  How a puppet joined the jihad.

• A Splendid Little Drug War

  Glenn Garvin

  Tragedy, farce, and fake brass cojones south of the border

• Napster for Novels?

  Mike Godwin

  Not even pirates like e-books

• Virtual Warriors

  Michael Valdez Moses

  Nostalgia, the battlefield, and boomer cinema

• Commuter Virus

  Tom Peyser

  Is American literature too soft on the suburbs?

Artifacts

• Artifact: Revolutions Per Minute

  Charles Paul Freund