May 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Southern Gothic

  Nick Gillespie

  The price of presidential prevarication

• Source Code

  Virginia Postrel

  Al Gore says he invented the Internet. What does he mean?

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Ribbitting Story

  Brian Doherty

• OK Corral

  Jacob Sullum

• Absinthe Friends

  Charles Paul Freund

• Running Around

  James V. DeLong

• Lucky Shot

  Jacob Sullum

• Vice Profits

  Jacob Sullum

• Aspartamania

  Mariel Garza

• Tax Murder

  Mariel Garza

• Soundbite: No Deals

  Michael W. Lynch

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quote

Columns

• The President in the Attic

  Charles Paul Freund

  Who is Bill Clinton?

• Truthless.com

  Mike Godwin

  A "Tom Clancy" thriller lends support to the foes of encryption.

• Capital Letters: Linear Thinking

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington contemplates the virtues of urban planning, literacy, and marriage

• Prosecutorial Abuse

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Reinventing the Independent Counsel Act for fun and profit.

• April Frauds

  Tama Starr

  Three manufactured holidays make fools of us all.

• Firing Squad

  Walter Olson

  In the gun litigation wars, who really speaks for federalism?

Features

• Starr Teachers

  Harvey Silverglate

  Think independent counsels use dirty tricks? Check out the Justice Department's regular prosecutors.

• Liberation Biology

  Scientist Lee M. Silver on cloning wars, bioethical battles, and new and improved genes

• The "Hate State" Myth

  Robert O. Blanchard

  In Wyoming, there are a few bigots who don't like gays. In the media, there are a lot more bigots who don't like Wyoming.

Culture & Reviews

• It Takes a Militia

  Glenn Reynolds

• Conservatism Without History

  Jonah Goldberg

• High Anxiety

  Jacob Sullum

• In a State's Eye

  Jesse Walker

Artifacts

• Artifact: Civil Wardrobe

  Jesse Walker