March 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: The Credulity of Castro's Defenders

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

  March 2007

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Zoned Out

  Jacob Sullum

  Sex offender residency restrictions

• Bowling Together

  Brian Doherty

  Sprawl and social virtue

• 40 Years War

  David Weigel

  Surveilling Americans

• Cold Comfort

  Radley Balko

  Big Pharma and the drug war

• Smoke-Free Homes

  Jacob Sullum

  Ever-expanding smoking bans

• Bar Brawl

  Kerry Howley

  Europe's Vodka Wars

• Subsidy Creep

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Pork and Produce

• Prisoner's Dilemma

  Radley Balko

  Incarceration and Crime

• Pagan Precedent

  Jeff Taylor

  Church, State, and School

• Benign Cells?

  Ronald Bailey

  Cancer and Mobile Phones

Soundbites

• Who Gives to Charity?

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  March 1977

Data

• Data

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Driving Capital Markets Offshore

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

  March 2007

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Where Are The Democrats?

  Terry Michael

  When it comes to Iraq, the opposition party is afraid to oppose.

• Bob Barr and the Libertarians

  David Weigel

  A former Republican congressman joins a third party.

• Enforcing Virtue

  Cathy Young

  Is social stigma a threat to liberty, or is it liberty in action?

Features

• The Life and Times of Milton Friedman

  Brian Doherty

  Remembering the 20th century's most influential libertarian.

• Dangerous When in Power

  Walter Olson

  Does government protect us from hazardous products, or does it put us in harm's way?

• Who Owns Your Body Parts?

  Kerry Howley

  Everyone's making money in the market for body tissue -- except the donors.

Culture & Reviews

• Father of Funk

  Jesse Walker

  The life--and afterlife--of James Brown

• No Small Matter

  Kenneth Silber

  Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry?

• iWorld

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Why the iPod personalizes everything

Book Reviews

• Red Elvis

  Michael C. Moynihan

  The strange tale of the Soviets' favorite rock 'n' roll star

• Fidel's Favorite Propagandist

  Glenn Garvin

  How a New York Times reporter's passion for Castro led him astray

Artifacts

• Artifact: Zero tolerance for silly pictures

  Ronald Bailey