May 1995

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Editor's Notes

• Cereal Killers

  Nick Gillespie

  Stop Congress before it strikes again.

• Curb Your Dog!

  Virginia Postrel

  What the rest of us want from Washington

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• The Never-Ending Story

  Nick Gillespie

  Can the feds really roll back regulations?

• Solving the Prisoners Dilemma

  Ed Carson

  States use house arrest to open up prison beds.

• Paper Losses

  Ed Carson

  The high cost of mandatory recycling

• Heh. Heh. Work Is Cool.

  Ed Carson

  Gen Xers are more positive about work than boomers.

• Talking Takings

  Brian Doherty

  How much has to be taken to be a taking?

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Exclusive Justice

  Robert Bauman

  Good faith breeds bad cops

• Wedge-O-Matic

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Affirmative Action slices and dices our common bond.

• A Vial Crime

  Jacob Sullum

  Meet Sam Zhadanov, 68-year-old plastic molder and drug-war casualty.

• Fehr Ball

  Michael McMenamin

  The bush-league strategy of baseball's player rep.

• Up the Academy

  John Hood

  Clinton's college-aid hikes would help schools, not students.

• Slash and Burn?

  Rick Henderson

  The regulatory revolt takes the Hill.

Features

• One-Shop Stopping

  Nick Gillespie

  Do Wal-Mart and Home Deport spell the end of "community"? A report on the superstore wars.

• Clinical Trials

  Alexander Volokh

  Beating the FDA in Court

Book Reviews

• Brief Review

  John McClaughry

• The Science of Art

  Gregory Benford

• Race and Responsibility

  Errol Smith

• Victimful Crime

  Cathy Young