July 2006

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Gimme gimme sticker-shock treatment

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Fashion Police

  Julian Sanchez

  Copyrighting couture.

• Iraq's Price Tag

  Jeff Taylor

  Trying to calculate the costs of war.

• Pay by the Mile

  Brian Doherty

  Lose a gas tax, lose your privacy?

• Spurious Species

  Ronald Bailey

  Mice vs. landowners.

• Regulating Bloggers

  Julian Sanchez

  Free speech on the Web.

• Blind Bet

  David Weigel

  Ohio goes after bingo.

• Video Virus

  Jacob Sullum

  Criminalizing game sales

• Sense on Stadiums

  Brian Doherty

  Rooting against the home team.

• Safety in Numbers

  Kerry Howley

  Abortion and the FDA.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Where the Right Went Rotten

  David Weigel

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Circle Game

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Rant: The Decline of the English Speaking Peoples

  Nick Gillespie

  America's national language is under siege.

• Treason of the Clerk

  David Weigel

  Accused of sedition, a V.A. nurse beats the rap.

• The Cult of 'Manliness'

  Cathy Young

  A curmudgeon's defense of "manly men" devolves quickly into self-parody.

Features

• The Politics of Sky-High House Prices

  Joel Miller

  How government jacks up the price of owning your home.

• Are Failed States a Threat to America?

  Christopher Preble & Justin Logan

  The Bush administration's nation-building efforts are a big mistake.

Interviews

• Searching for Alex Kozinski

  Shikha Dalmia

  The controversial 9th Circuit judge on free speech, privacy, and why he didn't mind the Kelo decision

Culture & Reviews

• Literary Paper Lions

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Book packagers, drunken exaggerations, hoaxes: Why do we still expect authenticity from bestsellers?

Book Reviews

• The Virtue of Riches

  Megan McArdle

  How wealth makes us more moral.

• An Army of Bloggers

  David Weigel

  How to turn low-budget revolutionaries into respectable members of the establishment

• In Praise of John Wilkes

  Daniel McCarthy

  How a filthy, philandering deadbeat helped secure Britishâ??and Americanâ??liberty