Editor's Note: Human Choice Machines

Nick Gillespie

Contributors

Letters

Skin Flicks 101

What porn studies profs don't get about sex

Cathy Young

Hillbilly Heartache

A Georgia senator gets a dose of reality.

Joe Bob Briggs

The Mystery of Mary Rosh

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

Julian Sanchez

Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi

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

Jesse Walker

Velvet President

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

Matt Welch

Measuring Up

Testing the pretensions of market research and polling.

Brian Doherty

Property Wrongs

Can property exist without the state?

Leigh Jenco

Monster Mash-Ups

How musical collages are challenging traditional ideas of authorship.

Jesse Walker

Standard Issue

The dot-com tragedy denied.

Tim Cavanaugh

Make Mine Mutants!

Marvel comics and plenitude in contemporary America.

Nick Gillespie

Artifact

Potter Mouth

Charles Paul Freund