January 2012

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Editor's Note

• Manufacturing Consensus

  Matt Welch

  Building a bipartisan truth one questionable ‘fact’ at a time

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Stop and Trick

  Jacob Sullum

  Trumped-up pot busts

• Montebello Meltdown

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Redevelopment corruption

• CLASS Dismissed

  Peter Suderman

  ObamaCare cutback

• Religious Test

  Ronald Bailey

  Church, state, and corruption

• ACLU vs. FISA

  Lucy Steigerwald

  Unconstitutional eavesdropping

• Free to Move

  Tate Watkins

  Beyond the border

• Internet Economics

  Peter Suderman

  Needless net neutrality

• Jails Not Prisons

  Lucy Steigerwald

  Inmates stay local

• Avenging Vendors

  Damon W. Root

  Always be licensing

• Lying About Spying

  Jacob Sullum

  Secret surveillance law

• Legalized Liquor

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Better booze in California

• Shoot First

  Mike Riggs

  Ask questions later

• Eminent Domain Goes Bust

  Damon W. Root

Soundbites

• Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside

  Paul Feine

Years Ago

• 25 years ago in reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Happy 150th Birthday!

Columns

• Who’s More Anti-Science: Republicans or Democrats?

  Ronald Bailey

  Comparing the applied ignorance of our two major political parties

• Executive Kill Switch

  Jacob Sullum

  Should the president have the power to kill anyone he considers an enemy?

• The Quantified Self

  Greg Beato

  What will life be like when every aspect of your existence is as easy to access as the latest Lady Gaga single?

• The Never-Ending Budget Battle

  Veronique de Rugy

  Writing rules to stop Congress from spending is hopeless.

Features

• The Moral Foundations of Occupy Wall Street

  Jonathan Haidt

  An illustrated guide to the signs at Zuccotti Park

• Restraining Orders

  Andrew Napolitano

  The government’s unconstitutional restrictions on our freedom to travel

• Medicare Whac-A-Mole

  Peter Suderman

  Why health care price controls always fail

Culture & Reviews

• Terror TV

  Peter Suderman

  Homeland shows the messier side of the security bureaucracy.

• Ken Burns on Prohibition, Pot, and PBS

  Nick Gillespie

  Q&A with America’s top documentarian

• Controlling Guns, Controlling People

  Thaddeus Russell

  A new history shows how gun control goes hand in hand with fear of black people—and The People.

• I, Panel

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Solyndra’s story, with apologies to Leonard E. Read

Book Reviews

• Modern-Day Prohibition

  Jeff Stier

  The eternal temptation to ban things that give people pleasure

Briefly Noted

• Holy Terrible

  Peter Suderman

• Spinoza’s Abominations

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Weedcrawler

  Mike Riggs

• Tranströmer, More Than Meets the Eye

  Michael C. Moynihan

• King and Country

  Kmele Foster

Artifact

• Tear Down This Fence

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Occupy Oakland turns chain link into art.