June 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Kiss Privacy Goodbye—and Good Riddance, Too

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Confessions of a Lazy Anti-Warrior

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Importing Affluence

  Adrian Moore

  The economics of offshoring.

• Will It Fly

  Brian Doherty

  CAPPS II update.

• Kiss Off

  Charles Paul Freund

  Banning affection.

• Bitter Pill

  Julian Sanchez

  Catholics and contraception.

• Holy Rail

  Jacob Sullum

  Mass transit boondoggles.

• Virtual War Chests

  Julian Sanchez

  Blog-based fund raising.

• Up, Up, and Away?

  Ronald Bailey

  Space is the place.

• Small Town Blues

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Regulating apartments away.

• Publisher's Note

  Mike Alissi

  About This Special Issue of Reason

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Probing Privacy

  Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Trade Barriers

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Opting Out

  Cathy Young

  The press discovers the mommy wars, again.

• Fair-Weather Friends

  Matt Welch

  When journalists desert from free speech battles.

• The Age of Uncertainty

  Nick Gillespie

  All we know is that we know something.

Features

• Database Nation

  Declan McCullagh

  The upside of "zero privacy"

• Lovers Without Borders

  Ben Smith

  What happens when gays from two different countries can't wed?

• Criminal Representation

  Jarett Decker

  Did Congress quietly make it a crime for lawyers to defend terror suspects?

• Objections to These Unions

  Jonathan Rauch

  What Friedrich Hayek can teach us about gay marriage.

Culture & Reviews

• Out of the Info Loop

  Bryan Alexander

  Why information networks are crucial to modern warfare.

• That Old New Economy

  Charles Oliver

  A leftist tries to make sense of the '90s boom.

• Messing With the Blues

  Jeff Taylor

  Revisionism comes to the Delta.

• Mr. Showbiz Goes to Washington

  Jesse Walker

  Wish-fulfillment fantasies and paranoid nightmares.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Fluid Structure

  Charles Paul Freund