June 2005

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From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging testscores, educators are lying to the American public.

Who Gets to Play Journalist?

An academic question becomes a pressing legal issue.

Matt Welch
Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer

The author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is no libertarian.

Cathy Young
Vagina Dialogue

Do conservatives really know what all women want?

Nick Gillespie

Self-Defense vs.Municipal Gun Bans

When Hale DeMar shot an intruder in his house, he may well have saved his children's lives. So why was he charged with a crime?

Robert VerBruggen
Legalize Now!

War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war.

Toby Muse

The Fog of War

How can we tell if we're winning the War on Terror?

Stephen J. Lyons
The Long, Gory Life of EC Comics

Why the Crypt-Keeper never dies.

Franklin Harris
In Defense of Steroids

Jose Canseco's surprisingly sensible case for juice.

Aaron Steinberg
Beyond Arabism

Music videos and Lebanese revolution.

Charles Paul Freund
Consumer Vertigo

A new wave of social critics claim that freedom's just another word for way too much to choose. Here's why they're wrong.

Virginia Postrel