June 2001

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Now That's Entertainment!

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Dole Numbers

  Brian Doherty

• What Cancer Epidemic?

  Ronald Bailey

• Gay Cathay

  Charles Paul Freund

• Downtown Wars

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Fun with Zoning Laws

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Lessons Unlearned

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Scalped

  Tom Kertscher

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Dudley Do-Math

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• The Mommy Tax

  Cathy Young

  Is motherhood a boon or a burden for women today?

• The Abolition of Man?

  Jesse Walker

  Tell 'em that it's human nature.

• Higher Learning

  Michael W. Lynch

Features

• City Views

  Bill Steigerwald

  Urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy.

• Electrifying Performances

  Carolyn Lochhead

  California's senators' responses to the energy crisis

• Electric Go-Karts

  Diane Katz & Henry Payne

  The perverse consequences of California's sales quotas

• Suing for Relief

  Marc B. Haefele

  GM takes California to court

• Keystone Success

  Michael W. Lynch

  Why Pennsylvania's plan has worked -- so far

• Power Tripped

  Adrian Moore & Michael W. Lynch

  Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State.

• The Great Pickup Stick-Up

  Sean Paige

  Alternative fuel follies

• Still Fab

  Charles Paul Freund

  Why we keep listening to the Beatles

Culture & Reviews

• Long and Whining Road

  Nick Gillespie

  The Beatles, the boomers, and boredom

• Art for Money's Sake

  Michael Young

  Hollywood's uneasy relationship with the almighty dollar

• Fun City Confidential

  Trav S.D.

  Why New York's sex industry still flourishes

• Foreign Policy Folly

  William Ruger

  A worrisome conservative strategic vision

Book Reviews

• Laissez-Faire Fiction

  Brian Doherty

  Who says free-market ideology rules the world?

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund