March 2008

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: See You at Reason.tv

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Slippery Slope

  David Weigel

  Subsidized campaigns

• Ad Lib

  Jacob Sullum

  Free speech fight

• License to Drink

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  MADD goes mad

• Bad Bounce

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Payday lending bans

• Petty Cash

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Immigrant injustice

• We're British

  Kerry Howley

  Assimilation, please

• Spycatchers

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Press freedom overseas

• Fly Away

  Robert Poole & Benjamin Dachis

  Airport traffic fixed

• Guns for D.C.?

  Brian Doherty

  Shooting for the Court

• Sex Flaws

  Radley Balko

  Database mistakes

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Myths of Sexual Slavery

  Kerry Howley

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago in Reason

  March 1973

Data

• Data: Weathering Storms

  Ronald Bailey

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: DOA Departments

  Ron Paul

Columns

• Whatever Happened to Tax Cuts?

  David Weigel

  In the GOP, free markets are losing to Huckanomics.

• The Golden Age

  Greg Beato

  How Americans learned to stop worrying and love workplace drug testing

• Rant: Make Mine Mormon

  Jesse Walker

  If only Mitt Romney were as colorful as his faith

Features

• Neither Gods Nor Goo

  Todd Seavey

  Avoiding both utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology

• A Secular Fantasy

  Cathy Young

  The flawed but fascinating fiction of Philip Pullman

Interviews

• Litigating for Liberty

  Nick Gillespie

  The Institute for Justice's Chip Mellor on campaign-finance reform, eminent-domain abuse, and licensing laws gone wild

Culture & Reviews

• The Cost of a Free Lunch

  Brian Doherty

  David Cay Johnston on how the government protects the privileged

Book Reviews

• They Said What?

  Nick Gillespie

  A happy history of lies and propaganda

• The Pomo Mind

  Daniel McCarthy

  Was the conservative intellectual Russell Kirk a postmodernist?

• McCarthy and His Friends

  Michael C. Moynihan

  The unconvincing rehabilitation of Tail Gunner Joe

• Vuitton Values

  Kerry Howley

  The delicate balancing act of luxury for the masses

Artifacts

• Artifact: The World Needs Citations

  Kerry Howley