July 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Ex-Pats Say the Darnedest Things

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Disappearing Divide

  Jeremy Lott

  The poor get connected

• Great White Choice

  Brian Doherty

  Canadian vouchers

• Wireless Revolution

  Jesse Walker

  Defiant Indians

• Less Than Zero

  Jacob Sullum

  The real cost of smoking

• Green Grants

  Michael W. Lynch

  Bureaucratic spending spree

• Child Labor Lost

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Kiddie umpire crackdown

• Higher Learning

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Campus drug wars

• Internet Toolkit

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Social capital online

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Freedom's Feminist

  Sara Rimensnyder

Data

• Data: Can't Give It Away

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Saddam Hussein, Novelist

  Charles Paul Freund

  A tyrant's glowing reviews.

• License to Kill

  Cathy Young

  Men and women, crime and punishment.

• Taxed Happy

  Michael W. Lynch

  Two economists provide legislators with another reason to boost taxes.

Features

• Four-Wheel-Drive Fantasies

  Hans Eisenbeis

  A defense of the SUV

• Stand and Deliver Revisited

  Jerry Jesness

  The untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime Escalante, America's master math teacher.

• Breast Men

  Melinda Ammann

  Mexican immigrants want to fillet our chickens. The INS is determined to stop them.

Culture & Reviews

• Can't Stop the Music

  Brian Doherty

  Don't cry for the record company man.

• This Magic Mona

  Charles Paul Freund

  The medieval appeal of a modern icon.

• New Criticism

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  A history of the 1990s misses the good old days -- and the truth.

• Doonesburied

  Jesse Walker

  The decline of Garry Trudeau -- and of baby boom liberalism.

• A World in Peaces

  Michael Young

  Thirty years after Vietnam, David Halberstam misses the best and the brightest.

• Color Schemes

  Richard Epstein

  Can affirmative action be reconciled with liberal individualism?

Artifacts

• Artifact: Skin Deep

  Jesse Walker