June 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• The Life Cycle of a Hack

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Drugged Trials

  Brian Doherty

  Medicated until proven guilty

• Government Smokes

  Charles Paul Freund

  The tobacco settlement

• Rotten Denmark

  Jeremy Lott

  Immigration trends

• Policing Dissent

  Jesse Walker

  Political spying

• Ethnic Engineering

  Michael W. Lynch

  Little white Indians

• Gender Bender

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Marriage rights

• Laff Riot

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Tyrannical television

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Immigration Advocate

  Michael W. Lynch

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Government Wages

  Michael W. Lynch

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Our Bodies, Our Scholarship

  Cathy Young

  Unwomen, "happy" marriage, foreign male elements, and women's studies.

• Family Matters

  Michael W. Lynch

  Welfare reform has liberals and conservatives calling for government action.

• Violent Reruns

  Nick Gillespie

  The fault lies not in our TV stars but in ourselves.

Features

• John Ashcroft's Power Grab

  Brian Doherty

  The saga of a troubled -- and troubling -- attorney general.

• Watching the AG

  Brian Doherty

  John Ashcroft vs. civil liberties.

• Cyberspace's Legal Visionary

  Jesse Walker

  Lawrence Lessig on the fate of copyrights and computer networks in the digital future.

Culture & Reviews

• X-Ray Specs

  Christopher Bogoyevac

  Secure skin show

• Che's Secret Diary

  Cynthia Grenier

  The guerrilla hero as a dispirited racist.

• Everyone's a Critic

  Jesse Walker

  Don't shed any tears for cinephilia.

• Tolerating Freedom

  Loren Lomasky

  Is a cancer growing in the bowels of liberalism?

• Foul Ball

  Matt Welch

  How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a Cuban historian.

• The Devil and Daniel Ellsberg

  Michael Young

  From archetype to anachronism.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Norrath Paribus

  Jesse Walker