June 2011

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Editor's Note

• Shine On, You Crazy Diamond

  Nick Gillespie

  reason founder Lanny Friedlander, 1947–2011

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Flicks Nixed

  Tim Cavanaugh

  No more movie subsidies

• Unaffordable Parking

  Stephen J. Smith

  Off-street mandates

• Web of Libel

  Radley Balko

  DHS seizes domains

• Chemical Conviction

  Damon W. Root

  10th Amendment challenge

• Gun Gap

  Jacob Sullum

  D.C. firearm rules

• Billions Wasted

  Peter Suderman

  Improper Medicare spending

• Tamper Tantrum

  Brian Doherty

  Criminal pamphleteering

• Thought Police

  Peter Suderman

  Judge goes mental

• Weed Hurler

  Josh Brokaw

  Soldiers bust pot catapult

• Cognitive Ecstasy

  Jacob Sullum

  Your Brain on MDMA

• Search Everyone

  Radley Balko

  The widest net

• Pop Democracy in the Middle East

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Follow-up on Reason's March 2002 issue.

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Defending Charlie Sheen

Columns

• Big Trouble in Little Hoover

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Why does the nonpartisan, good-government consensus sound so radical?

• Radar Love

  Greg Beato

  The changing status of the radar detector in a hyper-surveilled world

• Leviathan’s Lawyers

  Radley Balko

  The Office of the Solicitor General has traditionally defended the government. But should it?

• Ugly Modeling

  Veronique de Rugy

  Will spending cuts ruin or improve America’s economy?

• Mitch Daniels’ Pot Luck

  Jacob Sullum

  The Indiana governor’s escape from prison taught him the importance of being tough on drug users.

• The Political Economy of Ending Tyranny

  Ronald Bailey

  Will the Middle East uprisings succeed?

Features

• Dead Kids Make Bad Laws

  Michael Tracey

  New Jersey may soon repeal one of the most onerous driving restrictions in the country. That doesn’t mean legislators have learned their lesson.

• What Sub-Saharan Africa Can Teach San Francisco

  G. Pascal Zachary

  Mass transit doesn’t have to mean massive government spending.

Interviews

• The Governor Who Cut Government

  Matt Welch

  Puerto Rico’s Luis Fortuño on the economic benefits of slashing the state

• The Re-Constitution of Liberty

  Brian Doherty

Culture & Reviews

• Ventriloquists for the Powerless

  Thaddeus Russell

  Translating the revolutionary consciousness of voiceless animals is no more silly than doing the same for human beings.

• The Book on Mormons

  Ronald Bailey

  A brilliant new musical from the creators of South Park both mocks and admires religion.

• The Most Interesting Man in the Senate

  Matt Welch

  Rand Paul reshapes the national debate.

Briefly Noted

• Run This Industry Tonight

  Brian Doherty

• The Birth of Chaos

  Ronald Bailey

• Pocket Translator

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Reefer Mildness

  Jacob Sullum

• Fairly Legal

  Radley Balko

Artifact

• The Comics Code Goes Cold

  Jesse Walker