March 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Rand Redux

  Nick Gillespie

  Reason does Ayn Rand on her 100th birthday.

Cartoons

• My Very Own Monorail

  Peter Bagge

  One city's internal battle over the best way to get its cartoonists to and from a baseball game!

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Baby Geniuses

  Matt Welch

  Vouchers for prodigies?

• No Passport to Privacy

  Julian Sanchez

  Travelers get chipped.

• Letting Brokers Speak

  Jacob Sullum

  Real estate and free speech.

• Railroading the Poor

  Ted Balaker

  Transit for the rich.

• Somali Success Story

  Brian Doherty

  Does anarchy mean chaos?

• Gimme Shelters

  Julian Sanchez

  Benefits of tax havens.

• Psychedelic Tea

  Jacob Sullum

  Drugs and religious freedom

• Copyrighting the Air

  Jesse Walker

  WIPO roundup

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Mild, Mild West

  Brian Doherty

  Terry Anderson interviewed by Brian Doherty

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago at Reason

Data

• Data: Ride 'Em Cowboy

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quote and Source

Columns

• Boomer or Bust

  Jeff Taylor

  Reflections of a generational refugee.

• Taking the Fifth

  Matt Welch

  When journalists threaten our right to remain silent.

• God or Mammon

  Cathy Young

  When religious groups get caught between their principles and their subsidies.

Features

• Ayn Rand at 100

  Cathy Young

  Loved, hated, and always controversial, the best-selling author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is more relevant than ever.

• The Born-Again Individualist

  Nick Gillespie

  Fox News Channel's Judge Andrew Napolitano on lying cops, out-of-control government, and his bestselling new book, Constitutional Chaos.

• Transportation Security Aggravation

  Robert Poole & Jim Harper

  Debating the balance between privacy and safety in a post-9/11 aviation industry.

• Rand-O-Rama

  Ayn Rand's long shelf life in American culture.

Interviews

• "It's Mainly Just for Fun"

  Ted Balaker

  Space entrepreneur Burt Rutan on how private space flight policy should emphasize innovation, safety—and having a helluva good time

Culture & Reviews

• Labyrinths of Identity

  Charles Paul Freund

  Does it change Borges' fiction to know about Borges' life?

• Who Killed Captain Video?

  Glenn Garvin

  How the FCC strangled a TV pioneer.

• The Fever Swamps of Kansas

  Jesse Walker

  A leftist tries to make sense of grassroots conservatism.

• John Locke, Original Hipster

  Nick Gillespie

  The Enlightenment roots of counterculture.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Idol Hour

  Charles Paul Freund