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July 1981

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Saving the Wilderness: A Radical Proposal

Will the need for strategic minerals spell the death of America's wilderness? Environmentalists think so-and defense-minded congressmen are reinforcing those fears. But there is a way to have our minerals and keep our wilderness too.

John Baden and Richard Stroup

Features

Kept Critics

Did you know that your tax dollars are funding lobbyists for increased government regulation?

Morgan Norval

What Can Be Said for Nine Digits? Zip!

Zip. Zero. Zilch. The zenith of zaniness.

Byron Farwell

A Walk on the Supply Side

What exactly is supply-side economics, anyway?

J. Middendorf

Supply-Side Success Stories

Far from being untried, supply-side economics has achieved considerable success around the world.

Bruce Bartlett

Culture & Reviews

Movies

John Hospers

Politics and the Eglinsh Language

Richard Mitchell

Books

Honoring a Prophet

Felix Morley

Soul Poverty

Walter Williams

The Fortunes of the Dairy Lobby

Gregg Easterbrook

Demolition Detail

M. Johnson

Legal Laments

Doug Bandow

Editorials

Rethinking Foreign Aid

Robert Poole

Columns

Editor's Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: Traffic Light Reflections

James Davidson

Taxes: Watching Out for the IRS

Timothy Condon

Spotlight: Gold's Standardbearer

Patrick Cox

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole and Christine Dorffi

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Thomas W. Hazlett

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