June 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note Learning From Those Libertarian Weirdoes

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Rummy in the Dock

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Climbing the chain of command.

• Scientists for Sale

  Kerry Howley

  Innovation vs. ethics

• Sea of Litigation

  Brian Doherty

  Sailing away from the ADA?

• Suing Sodium

  Jacob Sullum

  Assault on salt.

• High on Helium

  Ted Balaker

  Selling off stockpiles.

• Pension Tension

  Julian Sanchez

  Our other retirement time bomb.

• Psychedelic Revival

  Jacob Sullum

  Research on forbidden drugs.

• Free to B&B

  Jacob Sullum

  Seattle's zoning tyrants.

• Ohio Clampdown

  Jesse Walker

  The PATRIOT Act and the states.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Darwinian Markets

  Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Don't Ask, Just Spend

  Kerry Howley

  Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

Quotes

• Quotes and Sources

Columns

• Who Gets to Play Journalist?

  Matt Welch

  An academic question becomes a pressing legal issue.

• Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer

  Cathy Young

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

• Vagina Dialogue

  Nick Gillespie

  Do conservatives really know what all women want?

Features

• How Schools Cheat

  Lisa Snell

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

• Self-Defense vs.Municipal Gun Bans

  Robert VerBruggen

  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?

• Legalize Now!

  Toby Muse

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

Culture & Reviews

• The Fog of War

  Stephen J. Lyons

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

• The Long, Gory Life of EC Comics

  Franklin Harris

  Why the Crypt-Keeper never dies.

• In Defense of Steroids

  Aaron Steinberg

  Jose Canseco's surprisingly sensible case for juice.

• Beyond Arabism

  Charles Paul Freund

  Music videos and Lebanese revolution.

• Consumer Vertigo

  Virginia Postrel

  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.

Artifacts

• Artifact: The Changing Face of Old St. Nick

  Charles Paul Freund