July 1995

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Editor's Notes

• Fighting Words

  Virginia Postrel

  Does reading this make you a terrorist?

Letters

• Letters

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Mutual Assured Obstruction

  Michael R. Boldrick

  How the START treaty disarms investigative journalists

• Sticker Shock

  Mubarak S. Dahir

  Pennsylvania tries to turn labels into laws.

• Forcing Free Speech

  Michael Greve

  The libertarian case for speech codes

• Laughing Stock

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Funny is as funny was.

• Mock Debate

  Jacob Sullum

  A DEA manual on how to argue against legalization shows lack of imagination.

• Guts Check

  Carolyn Lochhead

  Republicans control the nation's purse for the first time in 40 years. Do they have the courage to roll back federal spending?

• Borders Patrol

  Nick Gillespie

  Book sales are surging. Superstores are booming. And the American Booksellers Association doesn't like it.

• Fertile Imagination

  Adam Clayton Powell III

  Pulling the common thread

Features

• Extreme Prejudice

  Mack Tanner

  How the media misrepresent the militia movement

• Rewriting the Code

  Bruce Bartlett, Edward H. Crane, Daniel J. Pilla & Grover Norquist

  A roundtable on tax reform

Book Reviews

• Twenties-Something

  Gary Alan Fine

• Paine Killers

  Steven Hayward

• Overdue Process

  David Post

• Nature's Nature

  Alexander Volokh