March 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Aqua-Terror

  Brian Doherty

  Don't drink the water

• No Poor Traders

  Brian Doherty

  Globalization debates

• Bye-Bye, Jury

  James Morrow

  Courtroom coup

• Cold Steel

  Michael W. Lynch

  The U.S. steel industry needs massive failure, not another bailout

• The Men Who Japed

  Jesse Walker

  Software for pranksters

• Dollar Follies

  Sam MacDonald

  Beltway Econ 101

• Triangle Boy Howdy

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Bypassing the censors

• One Toke over the Line

  Sara Rimensnyder

  The feds vs. medical pot

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Drug War Heretic

  Nick Gillespie

Data

• Data: The Price of War

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Windbags of War

  Cathy Young

  Even after September 11, left-wing McCarthyism persists on American campuses.

• French Miss

  James Morrow

  Going Continental won't make air travelers safe.

• Gun Control's New Language

  Sam MacDonald

  How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment.

Features

• Social Insecurity

  Brink Lindsey

  Why an increasing number of countries are turning to market-based pension plans

• In Praise of Vulgarity

  Charles Paul Freund

  How commercial culture liberates Islam -- and the West

• Panic Attacks

  Jesse Walker

  Drawing the thin line between caution and hysteria after September 11.

• The Politics of Dead Children

  Matt Welch

  Have sanctions against Iraq murdered millions?

Culture & Reviews

• Hollywood's Second Sex

  Steve Kurtz

• Tales from the Dark Side

  Charles Oliver

  Divining the causes of Japan's economic nightmare

• He Was Right

  Glenn Garvin

  Looking back at the Goldwater moment

• Burning Sensations

  Jeremy Lott

  How would-be censors promote free speech.

• Spy Watch

  Michael Young

  Behind closed doors at the National Security Agency

• Porous Border

  Sara Rimensnyder

  How Mexican migrants change themselves -- and the U.S.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Free Hand

  Virginia Postrel