March 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Learning From History

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Observations From a Reluctant Anti-Warrior

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Do You Know the Cost of San Jose?

  Brian Doherty

  The high cost of low growth

• Poking the Camera's Eye

  Brian Doherty

  Total surveillance awareness

• High Road

  Jacob Sullum

  Is marijuana a "gateway"?

• Safety Hook

  Jacob Sullum

  The politics of "drugged driving"

• Locking Up Movies

  Jesse Walker

  Master of the public domain?

• Hot Water

  Ronald Bailey

  Of power plants and manatees

• Drop Your Pants

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Mooning on the wax?

• The Art of Self-Defense

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Gun control on trial

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Creatures of the Mall

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data

  Ronald Bailey

  Green Earth

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Dixiecrats Triumphant

  Charles Paul Freund

  The secret history of Woodrow Wilson.

• Guilty by Association

  Cathy Young

  Note to conservatives: Most immigrants aren't terrorists.

• Amphetamine Psychosis

  Nick Gillespie

  A delirious take on the latest "new drug of choice"

Features

• Creation Myths

  Douglas Clement

  Does innovation require intellectual property rights?

• Disarming History

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  How an award-winning scholar twisted the truth about America's gun culture -- and almost got away with it.

• Big Fat Fake

  Michael Fumento

  The Atkins diet controversy and the sorry state of science journalism.

• Gary Taubes tries to overwhelm the reader with sheer verbiage

• An exercise in vitriol rather than sound journalism

  Gary Taubes

Culture & Reviews

• Come Hear Uncle Sam's Band

  Brian Doherty

  The hippie capitalism of the Grateful Dead.

• We Aren't the World

  Charles Paul Freund

  American culture is not dominating the globe.

• Global Speculators

  Charles Oliver

  A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother?

• But Is It Outsider Art?

  Jesse Walker

  A prominent painter flunks a purity test.

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Unreal Thing