March 2009

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Editor's Notes

• Your Money or Your Democracy

  Matt Welch

  It's the most privileged industries that demand protection

Contributors

• Contributors

  Trey Garrison, Adrian Moore, and Charles Hayes

Letters

• Letters

  Are you better off than you were 40 years ago?, what's the matter with libertarians?...

Citings

• Misery Gets Company

  Jacob Sullum

  Incarceration record

• Blunt Talk

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Loose cigar sales banned

• Vanity Lair

  Radley Balko

  Congress honors itself

• Free Beer

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Brewing individualism

• Lender Ender

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  SEC vs. loan clearinghouse

• Pay Up

  Ronald Bailey

  Higher insurance premiums

• Who's Harassed Now?

  Matt Welch

  Sexual politics in California

• Safe Bet

  Jacob Sullum

  Online gambling surrender

• Soothsayer Speech

  Brian Doherty

  No fortunetelling ban

• Room to Maneuver

  Trey Garrison

  Sizing up a land grab

• Attacking the Defense

  Radley Balko

  Elected public defenders

• Computer Abuse

  Jacob Sullum

  Legal peril for Web users

• Follow Up: ID and Surveillance

  Brian Doherty

Soundbites

• High Art

  Mike Riggs

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago in reason

  John Hospers, Murray Rothbard, and Robert Poole Jr.

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Greg Gutfield

  Greg Gutfield

  Media Recession

Columns

• Draft Dodgers

  Greg Beato

  For DIY brewers, Prohibition lasted until 1978. But once unleashed, they revolutionized the industry.

• Gay by Force

  Jacob Sullum

  Legal equality does not mean requiring universal acceptance of homosexuality.

• Hate, 8, and the Golden State

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Proposition 8 supporters are being blacklisted. So what?

• Dissatisfaction Guaranteed

  Veronique de Rugy

  The federal government should stop guaranteeing loans.

Features

• A Better New New Deal

  Adrian Moore & Sam Staley

  How can we get the most bang for our transportation buck? Here are six ideas for the new president and cash-strapped governors.

• Can Christiania Survive?

  Charles Hayes

  A countercultural enclave in Denmark fights for its life.

• Not One More Acre!

  Trey Garrison

  Ranchers in Colorado's Piñon Canyon fight a massive Army land grab.

Interviews

• 'I Think the SEC Was Distracted'

  Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

  Outgoing Securities and Exchange Commissioner Paul Atkins talks about bailouts, hedge funds, and what he thinks the SEC should have been regulating.

Culture & Reviews

• Conservatism's Hollow Defeat

  Brian Doherty

  The intellectual right, now in the wilderness, keeps deluding itself about supposed past glories.

• Briefly Noted: Second Encounter

  Michael C. Moynihan

• Briefly Noted: Bubblegum Subversion

  Nick Gillespie

• Briefly Noted: Pot Mythology

  Jacob Sullum

• Briefly Noted: Post-Apocalyptic D.C.

  Allen Carrington Brooks

• Briefly Noted: Cracking the Conspiracy

  Brian Doherty

• In Darkest Indianapolis

  Jesse Walker

  A poor midwestern family is demonized by eugenicists and glorified by radicals.

Artifacts

• Shot by the Sheriff

  Mike Riggs

  Artists protest a border crackdown.