May 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Good Sports—and Bad

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Bad Host

  Matt Welch

  Cutting off Iranian dissidents.

• Rickshaw Rights

  Kerry Howley

  The World Bank vs. entrepreneurs

• Hospital Hazing

  Jesse Walker

  Death by licensing.

• Injustice is Blind

  Jacob Sullum

  Federal sentencing in flux.

• Broadband Battle

  Julian Sanchez

  What's in a name?

• Advertising Dissent

  Jacob Sullum

  Drug warriors back down.

• Aborting Plan B

  Ronald Bailey

  Caving on contraception.

• Inciting Censorship

  Charles Paul Freund

  Brits vs. blasphemy

• Pyro Power

  Brian Doherty

  No more rockets' red glare?

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Kerry Howley

  Private Meets Public

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data

  Julian Sanchez

  Life After Roe

Quotes

• Quote and Source

Columns

• Rant: Straight-Talkin' Prudes

  Nick Gillespie

  The silver linings in the Senate Republicans' censorious agenda.

• Free at Last

  Matt Welch

  New newspapers are springing up everywhere, despite the government's help.

• The President's Philosopher

  Cathy Young

  The holes in Natan Sharansky's democratic manifesto.

Features

• Demolishing Sports Welfare

  Daniel McGraw

  Two court cases could mean the end of publicly funded stadiums.

• Straight Shooting on Gun Control

  Abigail Kohn, Don Kates, Wendy Kaminer & Michael Krauss

  A Reason debate.

• Subsidies and Lies

  Matt Welch

  How baseball came back to D.C.

• Barbie's Taiwanese Homecoming

  Holiday Dmitri

  A plastic, fantastic tale of globalization.

Culture & Reviews

• The Global Warming Code

  Ronald Bailey

  Michael Crichton tells the truth.

• Locker-Room Liberty

  Matt Welch

  Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.

• Thomas Szasz Takes on HisCritics

  Jacob Sullum

  Is mental illness an insane idea?

• The Magical Father of American Rocketry

  Brian Doherty

  Jack Parsons, burning out his fuel up there alone.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Rotten Tomato Rules

  Jacob Sullum