May 1998

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Editor's Note

• Still Crazy

  Walter Olson

  Are federal judges taming the ADA? Don't count on it.

• In Memoriam: Julian Simon

  Brian Doherty

• Clipping Encryption

  Rick Henderson

  The White House wants the keys to your computer.

• Unions Forever?

  Virginia Postrel

  A new vision for America's workers

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Crumpling Tissues

  Brian Doherty

• Photo Flap

  Brian Doherty

• Wallet Surgery

  Carolyn Lochhead

• Moving Marijuana

  Jacob Sullum

• Block That Web

  Jeff Taylor

• Funny Numbers

  Michael W. Lynch

• Space Balls

  Michael W. Lynch

• May Day Payday

  Nick Gillespie

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Time and a Half

  Nick Gillespie

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• French Lessons

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Jospin removes laissez faire from the vocabulary.

Features

• Medical Convictions

  Mark Crane

  How prosecutors are charging doctors with criminal malpractice--and why patients should be very scared.

• Isn't It Ironic?

  Brian Doherty

  The tangled discourse of anti-market snobbery at Harper's

• Rebel Rousers

  Nick Gillespie

  Why right- and left-wingers both hate advertising

• Is the Asian Flu Fatal?

  James K. Glassman

  Why Asia's economies got sick--and what can be done to cure them.

• Shades of Green

  Alexander Volokh

  How state regulators and the private sector are making environmental policy more effective and less intrusive

Book Reviews

• A Trip to the Market

  Brink Lindsey

• Getting Beyond Racism

  John Hood

• Generous to a Fault?

  Loren Lomasky

• The Fire Last Time

  Jacob Sullum