Editor's Note

Nick Gillespie

Contributors

Letters

Intellectual Warfare

Pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-populists duke it out.

Cathy Young

Developmental Disability

HUD boondoggles show why bad government programs are so hard to kill.

Michael W. Lynch

Rant: Teenage Wasteland

Prohibition was repealed 70 years ago, but the mind-set behind it lingers on.

Nick Gillespie

Green with Ideology

The hidden agenda behind the "scientific" attacks on Bjørn Lomborg's controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Ronald Bailey

Hungry for the Next Fix

Behind the relentless, misguided search for a medical cure for addiction.

Stanton Peele

Sphere of Influence

Sputnik's lingering effects.

Charles Paul Freund

I'm OK, You Suck

Popular advice books get tough.

Ana Marie Cox

Ill-Treated

The continuing history of psychiatric abuses.

Brian Doherty

Speaking Lies to Power

Ralph Nader fudges the truth just like a real politician.

Matt Welch

Maple Leaf Rag

Does Canada Matter?

Jeremy Lott

Shoot the Messenger

Hollywood calls Western Union again.

Tim Cavanaugh