July 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Where Culture Trumps Politics

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Slum Justice

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  DIY arbitration in India

• Little Criminals

  Jeff Taylor

  Incarcerating teens with adults

• Foster Follies

  David Weigel

  The cost of anti-gay discrimination

• Principals of Censorship

  Jacob Sullum

  Student speech and the drug war

• Political Payoff

  Brian Doherty

  Campaign giving and stock prices

• Illegal Medicine

  Ronald Bailey

  Immigrations and Health Care

• Out of Africa

  Kerry Howley

  Brain drain or brain gain?

• Facial Challenge

  Radley Balko

  Pink slips and porn czars

• Hello to Arms

  Jacob Sullum

  Second Amendment victory in D.C.

• List

  History Lessons

• Pirates of the Caribbean

  Radley Balko

  Gambling and Free Trade

Soundbites

• Market-Based Manager

  Brian Doherty

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

  July 1982

Data

• Redistributing Poverty

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Rant: The FCC's Not Our Mommy or Daddy

  Nick Gillespie

  Let parents be parents when it comes to TV violence.

• Hawks and Hogs

  David Weigel

  Why no one dares attack the waste in defense spending

• The Good Czar

  Cathy Young

  The strange nobility of Boris Yeltsin.

Features

• The Aquarians and the Evangelicals

  Brink Lindsey

  How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America.

• 'You Can't See Why on an fMRI'

  Brian Doherty

  What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense

• The Minority Leader

  David Weigel

  Is Sen. Tom Coburn an extreme social conservative, a libertarian hero, or both?

Culture & Reviews

• Leftists for Hayek

  Steven Horwitz

  What happens when a socialist applies the insights of Austrian economics?

• Invasion of the Prostitots

  Kerry Howley

  Another moral panic about American girls

• The Horrible Truth About Super-Science

  David Weigel

  Jackson Publick of The Venture Brothers on superheroes, satire, and the '60s

Book Reviews

• This Magic Mushroom Moment

  Jacob Sullum

  A fan of funny fungi sorts fact from fantasy.

• Claiming Paine

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  The contested legacy of the most controversial founding father

Artifacts

• Artifact: Japan Draws Its Guns

  Kerry Howley

  Meet the world's cutest imperialist