March 1995

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Editor's Notes

• Bad Influence

  Brian Doherty

  Tax breaks aren't corporate welfare. Cash giveaways are.

• Future Tense

  Virginia Postrel

  Why Washington can't stand Newt's futurism

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Running From Wolves

  Brian Doherty

  Ranchers see a threat to their property in federal wolf program

• Broken Contract

  Rick Henderson

  GOP double-speak on block grants

• Fan Club

  Rick Henderson

  DC joins the private sports arena bandwagon

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Last Tango For Socialism

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Statism vs. the world's poor

• Rush to Judgment

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Limbaugh's secret sauce

• Tobacco Road

  Ed Carson

  Cigarette smuggling threatens to become a major problem.

• Red Ink Blues

  Harold Johnson

  Will bankruptcy force Orange County to act like Orange County?

• The President's Apprentices

  Jonathan Marshall

  Vocational education's failing grades

• Epic Burnout

  Charles Oliver

  More power to film makers can be a pain in the butt to audiences.

• In With Newt

  Carolyn Lochhead

  The first Republican week

Features

• Drug Prevention Placebo

  Jeff Elliott

  How DARE wastes time, money, and police

• "Can the President Think?"...Continued

  Readers respond to REASON's November cover story, and author Edith Efron responds to the readers.

• Background Check

  Rick Henderson

  People to watch in the new Congress

Book Reviews

• Orwell That Ends Well

  Rich Karlgaard

• Cracked Bell

  James J. Heckman

• Acid Test

  Jacob Sullum

• How Green Is Our Valley?

  Alexander Volokh