May 2001

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Editor's Note

• The Census and The Sopranos

  Nick Gillespie

  Adventures in a post-racial America

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Pacifica v. First Amendment

  Jesse Walker

• Costly Links

  Brian Doherty

• Hemp Holdup

  Brian Doherty

• The Geography of Somewhere

  Charles Paul Freund

• Stroke of Genius

  Jeff Taylor

• Sub Standard

  Jeff Taylor

• The British Inquisition

  Jeff Taylor

• Cleaning Out the Stacks

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Elementary Biometrics

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Protest Protection

  Sara Rimensnyder

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• False Diagnosis

  Cathy Young

  When it comes to gender, doctors don't play favorites.

• It Happens Every Spring

  Dan Lewis

  Baseball's invisible hand is stuck in red tape.

• Acts of Faith

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington hears Charlton Heston talk to himself and prays for relief from tax-funded religious charity.

Features

• Their Aim Is True

  Abigail Kohn

  Taking stock of America's real gun culture

• Citadels of Dead Capital

  Hernando de Soto

  What the Third World must learn from U.S. history

• Drunk with Power

  Stanton Peele

  The case against court-imposed 12-step treatments

• Gun Ownership: The Numbers

  Their Aim is True: Taking stock of America's real gun

Culture & Reviews

• Comics Tragedy

  Brian Doherty

  Is the superhero invulnerable?

• Don DeLillo's Bum Luck

  Nick Gillespie

  The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation

• Shrink Control

  Jacob Sullum

  The limits of a psychiatrist's skepticism

• Talking the Talk

  Loren Lomasky

  Have universities lost sight of why they exist?

• William Marston’s Secret Identity

  Nick Gillespie

  The strange private life of Wonder Woman's creator

• Inside Outsiders

  Steve Kurtz

  Three media mavericks come to terms with success