March 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Populist Psychology

  Nick Gillespie

  Why Ralph Nader hates Jesse Ventura

• The Pleasantville Solution

  Virginia Postrel

  The war on "sprawl" promises "livability" but delivers repression, intolerance--and more traffic.

Letters

• Russian Reform

Citings

• D.C. United

  Brian Doherty

• Books Galore

  Charles Paul Freund

• Where's Pa?

  Charles Paul Freund

• Magazine Mounties

  Jason Brooks

• Cheating Teachers

  Michael W. Lynch

• Home-Invasion Ruling

  Mariel Garza

• Invisible Man

  Michael W. Lynch

• Pork Chap

  Michael W. Lynch

• French Twist

  Ryan H. Sager

• citings

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Exorcising Demon Rum

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Capital Letters: Road Trip

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington lights out for the territories to explore culture and find the people behind the polls

• Seizure Disorder

  Michelle Malkin

  Seattle's "drug nuisance abatement" program is a menace to law-abiding property owners.

• Back in the USSR

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Post-communist society's top economic output: capitalist straw men

• Lost in the Wash

  Walter Olson

  "Know your customer" rules send privacy to the cleaners.

Features

• Tale of Tears

  Amy Sturgis

  When the Bureau of Indian Affairs occupied the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, it was an old story with a modern twist.

• Sex & Sensibility

  Cathy Young

• The New Trustbusters

  James V. DeLong

  What's behind the resurgence of antitrust activism--and why it's bad news for consumers.

Culture & Reviews

• Selling Opportunity

  John McClaughry

• Fuzzy Logic

  Lynn Scarlett

• Learned Nonsense

  Mark Goldblatt

• Burning Los Angeles

  Nick Gillespie

Artifacts

• Artifact: Stamp Act

  Nick Gillespie