May 1997

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Editor's Notes

• Tragic Government

  Brian Doherty

  Strengthening the state to avoid the unavoidable

• No Class

  Virginia Postrel

  Bill Clinton's education-as-entitlement programs threaten to reverse positive trends in higher education.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Cannabis Catch-22

  Jacob Sullum

• Mises Papers Recovered

  Brian Doherty

• The Science of the Lambs

  Charles Paul Freund

• A Pound of Flesh?

  Ed Carson

• Deficit Deception

  Ed Carson

• First, Expose All the Lawyers

  Ed Carson

• Stop the Madness

  Ed Carson

• More Dirty Looks, Please

  Nick Gillespie

• A Matter of Preferences

  Michael W. Lynch

• Smuggler's Boobs

  Nick Gillespie

• Defining Democracy

  Rick Henderson

• Trump Change

  Rick Henderson

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Dammit Janet

  Adrienne Redd

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Sources

Columns

• Road Hogs

  Ed Carson

  Will Congress cut back the transit pork?

• The Twin Paradox

  Ronald Bailey

  What exactly is wrong with cloning people?

• The Screening of America

  Brian J. Taylor

  Crime, cops, and cameras

• Deficit Attention Disorder

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Its opponents make the case for the Balanced Budget Amendment.

• Pot of Trouble

  Adam J. Smith

  Grow marijuana for medical use in California, and you can get off. Do it in Oklahoma, and you can get 93 years.

Features

• Malignant Law Enforcement

  Brian Doherty

  The FDA's war against an unorthodox cancer doctor.

• The Incredible Shrinking State

  William D. Eggers

  How New Zealand got up from down under its bureaucracy.

• Occupational Hazards

  Walter Olson

  Why "sued if you do, sued if you don't" is the new rule in employment law.

Book Reviews

• Taxing Our Health

  Michael W. Lynch

• Peace Corpse

  Nick Gillespie

  Supporters of federal power privatization have learned a lot from failures in the last Congress.

• Land Stakes

  Rick Henderson

  Supporters of federal power privatization have learned a lot from failures in the last Congress.

• Of Sand and Cities

  Steven R. Postrel