May 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Human Choice Machines

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• The Nerd-ification of America

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Massively Misguided Transit

  Brian Doherty

  Adventures in light rail

• Nicotine Fights

  Jacob Sullum

  Bootlegging and violence

• What's Your Damage?

  Brian Doherty

  Corn losers

• Bureaucratic Enrichment Zone

  Jesse Walker

  A radical proposal wasted

• Overflowing Barrels

  Jacob Sullum

  The porkiest bill ever?

• Indecent Rules

  Jesse Walker

  Pleasing the censors

• Comic Bureaucracy

  Rachel Alembakis

• Cosmetic Surgery

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Drug war spending

• We Want Your House

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Eminent domain takings

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Is Art Good for Us?

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason:

Data

• Data: Stimulant Response

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Skin Flicks 101

  Cathy Young

  What porn studies profs don't get about sex

• Hillbilly Heartache

  Joe Bob Briggs

  A Georgia senator gets a dose of reality.

• The Mystery of Mary Rosh

  Julian Sanchez

  How a new form of journalism investigated a gun research riddle.

Features

• Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi

  Jesse Walker

  What JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths.

• Velvet President

  Matt Welch

  Why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell and more.

Interviews

• Pulling Our Own Strings

  Ronald Bailey

  Philosopher Daniel Dennett on determinism, human "choice machines," and how evolution generates free will.

Culture & Reviews

• Measuring Up

  Brian Doherty

  Testing the pretensions of market research and polling.

• Property Wrongs

  Leigh Jenco

  Can property exist without the state?

• Monster Mash-Ups

  Jesse Walker

  How musical collages are challenging traditional ideas of authorship.

• Standard Issue

  Tim Cavanaugh

  The dot-com tragedy denied.

• Make Mine Mutants!

  Nick Gillespie

  Marvel comics and plenitude in contemporary America.

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Potter Mouth