May 1991

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Editor's Note

• Fuelishness

  Virginia Postrel

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Trends

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Peeling the Apple

  Martin Morse Wooster

  Don't bite the maggots.

• Cold Turkey

  Stanton Peele

  Stop smoking without help from the "experts."

• Gun Shy Judges

  Jacob Sullum

  Who's afraid of the Second Amendment?

• Fiscal Folly

  Daniel J. Mitchell & Andrew F. Quinlan

  Darman's hollow budget victory.

• L.A., Lawless

  Rick Henderson

• A Good Death?

  Jacob Sullum

• Invisible Men

  Charles Oliver

• House of Hope

  Bryan Miller

  Fewer homeless without more beds.

• Dressing Up the Emporer

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Decency and diversity vs. taxpayers.

Features

• The Superior Mail

  Carolyn Lochhead

  Alternative postal companies deliver for you

• Beyond Tomorrowland

  T.A. Heppenheimer

  A fantasy: What if NASA built a useful space station?

• Children of Abraham

  Steven Hayward

  To claim Lincoln's legacy is to define our nation's soul. But the advocates of "equality" distort the meaning of his message.

Interviews

• Capitalist Tool II: Defending Dynamism

  Virginia Postrel & Charles Oliver

  An interview with Malcolm Forbes, Jr.

Book Reviews

• The Age of Diminishing Expectations

  Paul Craig Roberts

• Programs for the Future

  Greg Costikyan

• Baby Talk

  Karl Zinsmeister

• The Capitalist Evolution

  Martin Morse Wooster

• Depth Charge

  Loren Lomasky