May 2002

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Just Say No to Live Clarinets

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Freeing Forests

  Brian Doherty

  Privatizing land management

• Artificial Bust

  Christopher Bogoyevac

  The drug law that wasn't there

• Valuable Heroism

  Charles Paul Freund

  Trademark ad absurdum

• Free Will

  Jacob Sullum

  Helping drug war victims

• Classroom Control

  Michael W. Lynch

  Teachers' power grab

• Unsustainable Promises

  Ronald Bailey

  Not-so-green architecture

• Copps on Patrol

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Cleaning up TV

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Bush's Legions

  Michael W. Lynch

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Watching the Kiddies

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Intellectual Warfare

  Cathy Young

  Pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-populists duke it out.

• Developmental Disability

  Michael W. Lynch

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

• Rant: Teenage Wasteland

  Nick Gillespie

  Prohibition was repealed 70 years ago, but the mind-set behind it lingers on.

Features

• Hollywood vs. the Internet

  Mike Godwin

  Why entertainment companies want to hack your computer.

• Green with Ideology

  Ronald Bailey

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

• Hungry for the Next Fix

  Stanton Peele

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

Culture & Reviews

• Sphere of Influence

  Charles Paul Freund

  Sputnik's lingering effects.

• I'm OK, You Suck

  Ana Marie Cox

  Popular advice books get tough.

• Ill-Treated

  Brian Doherty

  The continuing history of psychiatric abuses.

• Speaking Lies to Power

  Matt Welch

  Ralph Nader fudges the truth just like a real politician.

• Maple Leaf Rag

  Jeremy Lott

  Does Canada Matter?

• Shoot the Messenger

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Hollywood calls Western Union again.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Auto Exotica

  Charles Paul Freund