Editor's Note: The Public Sector and the Private

Nick Gillespie

Contributors

Letters

The Problem with Putin

An unreliable ally, an unlikely democrat

Cathy Young

Iraq's Summer Soldiers

Liberal hawks as ideological deserters.

Tim Cavanaugh

All Tomorrow's Partisans

The culture war after the 2004 election.

Matt Welch

Fly the Frugal Skies

How low-cost airlines have transformed Europe--and what it means for America.

Matt Welch

Hayek for the 21st Century

Biographer Bruce Caldwell on the Road to Serfdom author's enduring lessons about bad planning, distributed information, and the liberating power of choice.

Nick Gillespie

Cut-Rate Diplomas

How doubts about the government's own "Dr. Laura" exposed a résumé fraud scandal.

Paul Sperry

Among the Non-Believers

The tedium of dogmatic atheism.

Chris Lehmann

Trans-Atlantic Tripe

Jeremy Rifkin's theory of failed states.

David Weigel

Dear Playwright

Team America is not Kim Jong Il's first foray into musical drama.

John Gorenfeld

Imperial Waltz

Is American power good, bad, or distressingly reluctant?

Michael Young

John Locke Lite

The strange philosophy of a "left libertarian".

Tom Palmer

Artifact: Shock Me, Amadeus

Charles Paul Freund