January 2008

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Editor's Note

• Editor's Note: Free to Move

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Starvation Diet

  Ronald Bailey

  Castro's weight loss plan

• Pants Police

  Radley Balko

  Say no to crack

• Marital Woes

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Defrocked eMinisters

• Verification Nation

  Kerry Howley

  Immigration data mess

• Swiss, Please

  Jesse Walker

  Free trade in cheese

• Home Again

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Outsourcing the outsourced

• Bloomberg's Folly

  Brian Doherty

  NYC gun stings

• Bad Touch

  Jacob Sullum

  TSA turban test

• Buzz Kill

  Ronald Bailey

  Bees go missing

• Clean Cameras

  David Weigel

  Recycling surveillance

• Book Check

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Big Brother is reading

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Al Queda's Forerunner

  Michael Young

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago in Reason

  January 1973

Data

• Data: High Risk

  Jacob Sullum

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Bonds for Babies

  David Weigel

  Democrats discover the Ownership Society

• Rant: Burn the Rich

  Matt Welch

  Is it "apartheid" to pay for extra fire protection?

• Where's the Beef?

  Greg Beato

  Thank McDonald's for keeping you thin.

Features

• Big Box Panic

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving.

• Guests in the Machine

  Kerry Howley

  Guest worker programs may be the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lives.

Interviews

• Remembering 'The Forgotten Man'

  Nick Gillespie

  Amity Shlaes, author of a new history of the Great Depression, talks about Franklin D. Roosevelt's baleful economic legacy, the growth of government, and the death of classical liberalism.

Culture & Reviews

• Interview with the Vampire Expert

  David Weigel

  Eric Nuzum on censorship, panics, and bloodsucking fiends

• The Real Untold Story

  Robert Alt

  What the Anna Nicole Smith case tells us about the legal system

• A Code Is Born

  Thomas Doherty

  How Catholic crusaders and New Deal regulators created the most intrusive censorship regime in Hollywood history

Book Reviews

• Secrets of Weight Loss Revealed!

  Jacob Sullum

  A little is easy, a lot is hard, and results may vary.

• The Amateurs' Hour

  David Harsanyi

  Is the Internet destroying our culture, or is it just annoying our snobs?

Artifact

• Artifact: TSA-Inspired Art

  Nick Gillespie