May 2007

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Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Hold Your Cards

  David Weigel

  States vs. the Real ID Act

• House Rules

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Fair housing and free speech

• I, Tax Robot

  David Weigel

  Internet tax traps

• Blogged Down

  Jeff Taylor

  Censoring the Web

• Wireless Boondoggles

  Brian Doherty

  Public broadband rip-offs

• Pop-Up Crackdown

  Radley Balko

  Sex panic in Connecticut

• Hurricanes Happen

  Jacob Sullum

  Insurance price controls

• Fat Checks

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Bloated obesity programs

• Exporting Drug Prices

  Jacob Sullum

  Who's afraid of reimportation?

• Power Splurge

  Kerry Howley

  The daylight-saving time myth

• Mixed-Up Raid

  Radley Balko

  Artists Under Attack

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• There Is Power in a Unity08

  Brian Doherty

  Send in the centrists? Don't bother; they're here.

• Assault Behind Bars

  Cathy Young

  How big a problem is prison rape -- and what can be done about it?

• More Money, No Problem

  David Weigel

  The death of taxpayer-financed campaigns

Features

• An Epidemic of Meddling

  Jacob Sullum

  The totalitarian implications of public health

• The Folly of Southern Hospitality

  John F. Sugg

  Dixie leads the way in lavish corporate subsidies. As other parts of the country follow suit, it's time to ask whether such incentives work.

Interviews

• Superhuman Imagination

  Mike Godwin

  Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and the state

Culture & Reviews

• Monopoly's Staying Power

  Nick Gillespie

  Why the most famous board game in history continues to flourish

• Girly Mags vs. the Censors

  Jacob Sullum

  The changing standards of sexiness

• How the Wolves Survive

  Radley Balko

  Los Lobos' Louie Perez on immigration, cultural mixing, and his band's new album

• The Wealth of LibriVox

  Michael Erard

  Classic texts, amateur audiobooks, and the grand future of online peer production

Book Reviews

• Ghetto Capitalists

  Kerry Howley

  The inner cities are bustling with informal enterprises, but the government has cut them off from the larger economy.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Scars of War

  Nick Gillespie