July 2008

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Editor's Notes

• The Golden Collapse

  Matt Welch

  Believe it or not, there once was a market crash where participants paid the consequences.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Open Skies

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Wild blue yonder

• Coca Zero

  Radley Balko

  Drug war goes native

• Striking Distance

  Kerry Howley

  Three strikes' folly

• Needling Vaccines

  Ronald Bailey

  Autism's day in court

• Rent-a-Pet

  Kerry Howley

  Doggy in the window

• Gentler Failure

  Oren Grad

  Our children isn't learning

• Pirates Ahoy!

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Private security at sea

• Warcraft on Terror

  Jesse Walker

  Virtual jihad

• No Shit

  Jacob Sullum

  FCC censorship fight

• Ring Barers

  Jacob Sullum

  TSA reveals T&A

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Pop Christianity

  David Weigel

  An interview with Rapture Ready! author Daniel Radosh

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  July 1978

Data

• Data: Meth Math

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Prohibition has little to do with declining drug use

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Revolution for Kids!

  Cory Doctorow

  Cory Doctorow recommends three political books for young adults

Columns

• Free the Fireworks!

  Greg Beato

  Can individual citizens be trusted to celebrate Independence Day with a bang?

• Permanent rEVOLution

  David Weigel

  The next generation of Ron Paul Republicans

• Rant: The War on Renters

  Paul Thornton

  Aspiring presidents vs. aspiring homeowners

Features

• Education for Profit

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Why is everyone flaming the University of Phoenix?

• Baby Bust!

  Kerry Howley

  The world is panicking over birthrates. Again.

Debates

• Carbon: Tax, Trade, or Deregulate?

  Ronald Bailey, Lynne Kiesling & Fred L. Smith

  Something is going to be "done" about global warming, so what should it be? A debate.

Culture & Reviews

• Classical Gasbags

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Mavens moan about the decline of longhair music, but listeners are hitting all high C's

• 'Our Flag Is Hip-Hop'

  Kerry Howley

  Planet B-Boy and the globalization of an American art form

• The Age of Nixon

  Jesse Walker

  Rick Perlstein on the left, the right, the '60s, and the illusion of consensus

Book Reviews

• State of Discontent

  Michael Valdez Moses

  J.M. Coetzee's anti-political fiction

• Flunk This Movie!

  Ronald Bailey

  Ben Stein's Expelled is all worldview and no evidence.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Hear! Hear the pipes are calling!

  Jesse Walker

  The surprising history of the bagpipe