July 1994

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Editor's Note

• Presidential Drift

  Nick Gillespie

  Clinton's Haiti policy has no anchor.

• Weapon Assault

  Jacob Sullum

  The advantage of weak arguments.

• Fed Up

  Virginia Postrel

  The problems of the Federal Reserve.

Print Articles

• The Unquashed Masses

  Donald N. McCloskey

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Russian Refuge

  Elizabeth Larson

  Conservation begins with a private park.

• Pot Luck

  Jacob Sullum

  Marijuana and driver fatalities

• The Wrong Way to Save

  Rick Henderson

  Canadian health care: not cheaper, not better

• Taking Charge

  Rick Henderson

  Protecting property owners from regulators

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Taming of the Shrill

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Missing Nixon

• Sensitive Censors

  Steve Kurtz

  The ubiquity of uniquity

• Parking Costs

  Carolyn Lochhead

  Government ownership reduces every land-use decision to a power play.

• Put That in Your Pipe

  Rick Newcombe

  As an act of rebellion against political correctness, pipe smoking is hard to beat.

• Stern Message

  Nick Gillespie

  Radio's bad boy holds a funhouse mirror up to politics.

• Family Affairs

  Charles Oliver

  Fashions in family sitcoms swing between nasty and nice.

• Scandal Time

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  History suggests the White House scndals won't help Republicans as much as they expect.

• Competing Visions

  Rick Henderson

  The National Competitiveness Act would make Uncle Sam a venture capitalist.

• In Memoriam: Karl Hess

  Lynn Scarlett

Features

• The New Mexico

  Raoul Lowery Contreras

  The reaction to the revolt and assassination bodes well for the future.

• Revolutionary Appeals

  Dario Fernandez-Morera

  Chiapas tells the old story of peasant Indians used by urban intellecturals.

• Bad News, Good News

  Julio Marquez

  Colosio's untimely death could mean the rebirth of reform.

• The Perils of Perestroika

  Agustin Navarro

  Mexico still needs economic and legal reform.

• Man Troubles

  Cathy Young

  Making sense of the men's movement.

Interviews

• Mind Alteration

  Jacob Sullum

  Drug-policy scholar Ethan Nadelmann on turning people against drug prohibition

Book Reviews

• Planning for Profit

  Steven Hayward

• Coase Encounters

  David Henderson