July 1996

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Editor's Notes

• Just Do What?

  Jacob Sullum

  The drug war's empty promises

• Gas Bags

  Virginia Postrel

  Technocracy is running on fumes.

Letters

• Letters

• Letters

• Letters

• Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Contract Revisions

  Ed Carson

  Cities ponder "living wage" requirements for government contractors.

• User-Friendly Skies

  Nick Gillespie

  The latest on airline deregulation

• Job Search

  Nick Gillespie

  The sick man is Europe.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Minimum Standards

  James K. Glassman

  A compassionate alternative to raising the minimum wage

• For Better or Worse

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Gay marriage is better.

• Reich and Responsibility

  John Hood

  Business bashing gets serious.

Features

• No Easy Way Out

  John Attarian

  Fixing Social Security can't be painless.

• Special Ed

  Britton Manasco

  Factory-like schooling may soon be a thing of the past.

• Uncompromising Position

  Nick Gillespie

  Is "Libertarian politics" an oxymoron?

• The British Disease

  Jonathan Rauch

  It's Sanity.

Book Reviews

• Affirmative Agony

  Robert Detlefsen

• Dumb and Dumber

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

• Fear of Letting Go

  Rick Henderson