March 1997

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Editor's Notes

• Airbags and Gasbags

  Brian Doherty

  Airbags aren't much of a risk--but it's one we should be free to choose.

• Information Rage

  Nick Gillespie

  Rating the TV raters

• Reefer Madness

  Virginia Postrel

  Why the Clinton administration is terrified by medical marijuana.

Letters

• Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Gonna Fly Now

  Brian Doherty

• Information Costs

  Brian Doherty

• Lawyers, Congress, and Money

  Brian Doherty

• Corporate Welfare Reform

  Ed Carson

• General Consternation

  Jacob Sullum

• Painful Lessons

  Jacob Sullum

• Safety That Kills

  Jacob Sullum

• No Sale

  Jeff Taylor

• Shock Therapy for Taxpayers

  Kenneth Green

• Ave Evita

  Nick Gillespie

• Dare to Keep Kids Off D.A.R.E.

  Nick Gillespie

• Fool Of Law

  Nick Gillespie

• Work Release

  Nick Gillespie

• The Truth Is Out There?

  Rick Henderson

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Revelations and Recovery

  Nick Gillespie

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Sources

Columns

• We the 50 Peoples

  Brian Doherty

  State constitutionalism challenges the federal judicial leviathan.

• Stayin' Alive

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Health, wealth, and wise guys

• Erogenous Zones

  Todd Seavey

  New York porn shops say goodbye to Broadway.

Features

• Gulf Lore Syndrome

  Michael Fumento

  Why are the Gulf War vets getting sick? You won't find out by reading The New York Times and USA Today.

• Clash of the Titans

  Carolyn Lochhead

  The coming collapse of Social Security pits the baby boom against the New Deal -- and the New Dealers have come out swinging.

• The Merchant of Avon

  Frederick Turner

  The best guide to 21st-century economics is a 16th-century poet.

Book Reviews

• Epistles to the Heathen

  Nick Gillespie

• Desperately Seeking David

  Steven Hayward

• Boomer Blues

  Rick Henderson

• Right Off Target

  Walter Olson