July 2005

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Editor's Note

• Editor's Note: High Court Anxiety

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Ten Percent Solution

  Julian Sanchez

  TSA reforms stall at the gate.

• Building a New World

  Jesse Walker

  Mini-nations for the super-rich.

• Save the Frankenfish!

  Kerry Howley

  Is the snakehead endangered?

• Assault Ambiguity

  Kerry Howley

  Marriage bans and domestic abuse.

• Heresy on the Right

  Jacob Sullum

  Conservatives and the drug war.

• Welfare Queen

  Matt Welch

  Farm subsidies for the filthy rich.

• Skate Park Superegos

  Julian Sanchez

  Lawsuits and parental power.

• Censored Science

  Ronald Bailey

  Speaking out on stem cells.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Energy Forever

  Kerry Howley

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data

  Matt Welch

  That's Classified, Ma'am

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Rant: "Values" and the Democrats

  Jesse Walker

  Will the moral grandstanding never end?

• Cashing in on Weblogs

  Matt Welch

  Major media companies are investing in blogs. Is this a new boom or just a bubble?

• Bizarre Bedfellows

  Cathy Young

  Andrea Dworkin's ideological intercourse with the right.

Features

• Who Should Reign Supreme?

  Reason asks libertarian legal experts: Who are your favorites--past, present, and future--on the nation's highest court?

• Unleash the Judges

  Damon W. Root

  The libertarian case for judicial activism.

• Not So Supreme

  Nick Gillespie

  A Court Divided author Mark Tushnet explains William Rehnquist's legal legacy--and why the nation's top court matters less than you think.

• Supreme Court Senility

  Jesse Walker

  Historian David J. Garrow discusses decrepit judges.

Culture & Reviews

• The First Eugenicist

  Kenneth Silber

  Was Francis Galton wrong to want to improve the human race?

• The Fighting Scots-Irish

  Charles Oliver

  They shaped America, but did they make it more free?

• The Perpetual Health Care Crisis

  Brian Doherty

  There may be no public policy solution to health care.

• Cry the Beloved Continent

  Melinda Ammann

  Africans are poor because they're poorly governed.

• Why I'm Fonda Hanoi Jane

  Nick Gillespie

  Actress, activist, American. What's not to like?

• Critique of Pure Riesling

  Kerry Howley

  Wine snobbery in an age of globalization.

Artifact

• Artifact: Natural-Born Cyborgs

  Jesse Walker