June 1998

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Editor's Notes

• Blame Society First

  Brian Doherty

  Individual responsibility is the truly unthinkable.

• Chain Heat

  Nick Gillespie

  Are book superstores a threat to the reading public?

• No Telling

  Virginia Postrel

  The push for Internet privacy controls combines a bad theory with a dangerous agenda.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Tough Cops

  Brian Doherty

• True Crime Tax

  Brian Doherty

• Bidding Wars

  Brian J. Taylor

• Bottle Battle

  Jacob Sullum

• Deadly Crop

  Jacob Sullum

• Evil Clown

  Jacob Sullum

• Reel Dope

  Jacob Sullum

• Help Wanted

  Michael W. Lynch

• Listening In

  Michael W. Lynch

• Youthful Exuberance

  Nick Gillespie

• Head Count

  Rick Henderson

• Puff Daddies

  Rick Henderson

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Death Watch

  Nick Gillespie

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Clone Wars

  Mark Eibert

  The forces of government gather in fear of hypothetical clones.

• Impossible Dream

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Why private matters make bad public policy

• Titanic Numbers

  T. Keating Holland

  The movie's unsinkable hype machine sails on.

• Clients From Hell

  Michael McMenamin

  Mr. President, you should have listened to us.

• Thanks for the Memories

  Walter Olson

  How lawyers get the testimony they want.

• Carolina Dreamin'

  Max Schulz

  A German immigrant opens a brew pub on Roanoke Island--and lives to tell the tale.

• Rebel Yell

  Jesse Walker

  Tennesseeans fight back against the conquering cities.

Features

• Mind Over Matter

  James V. DeLong

  In the information economy, intellectual property is bringing huge returns. But just how will society split up the bounty?

• Buying Into Culture

  Charles Paul Freund

  How commerce cultivates art

• Wild, Wild Web

  Mike Godwin

  In cyberspace, copyright infringement is only a click away. Commonsense guidelines to intelectual property in unsettled territory.

Interviews

• Plan Obsolescence

  Adrian Moore & Rick Henderson

  Urban planning skeptic Peter Gordon on the benefits of sprawl, the war against cars, and the future of American cities.

Book Reviews

• Send in the Clones

  Ronald Bailey

• Casting the Net

  Nick Gillespie

• Atrocity Exhibition

  Carl F. Horowitz

• Taking It to the Streets

  Fred Siegel

Artifacts

• Artifact: The Search for Tomorrow

  Virginia Postrel