July 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Empty Lessons

  Jesse Walker

  Going to lunch on the ruins

• Schools of Alienation

  Nick Gillespie

  The Hobbesian culture of American education

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Swamp Thing

  Brian Doherty

• Antique Values

  Charles Paul Freund

• Fired Up

  Jacob Sullum

• Post No Bills

  Jesse Walker

• Alternate History

  Mariel Garza

• Social Insecurity

  Mariel Garza

• Grave Problem

  Michael W. Lynch

• Silicon Boobs

  Michael W. Lynch

• Soundbite: Dr. Doom

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Police Beat

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington observes the nation's guardians

• Hostage Rescue

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Another reason to liberate the schools

• Lawyers, Gums, and Rummies

  Walter Olson

  Why do we hate attorneys?

Features

• Cracking the speech code

  Alan Charles Kors

  When the University of Wisconsin sat down to evaluate its repressive faculty speech code, nobody expected free speech to win. Here's how it happened.

• Is Your Site Accessible?

  Adam Clayton Powell III

  Wheelchair ramps for the Information Superhighway

• Why Johnny Can't Fail

  Jerry Jesness

  How the "floating standard" has destroyed public education

• Is God in the Details?

  Kenneth Silber

  From cosmic coincidence to conservative cosmopolitics.

• Shots in the Dark

  Sue A. Blevins

  Who should decide which vaccinations children receive?

• Establishment Pause

  Steve France

  Religious freedom meets anti-discrimination law

Culture & Reviews

• A Gray World

  Brink Lindsey

• All Too Empty

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

• Gender Truce

  Norah Vincent

Artifacts

• Artifact: By the Boards

  Jacob Sullum