May 2011

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Editor's Note

• The Arab Spring

  Matt Welch

  The Middle East's breathtaking liberalization really isn't about us.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Intrusive Inspectors

  Jacob Sullum

  Renters' privacy

• Fat kids love pie

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Making Whoopie

• Pennsylf#¢%ingvania

  Peter Suderman

  Four-letter fines

• Human rights worldwide

  Ronald Bailey

  Globalization Liberates

• License to Bike

  Armin Rosen

  Seniors vs. peddlers

• Distracted Moving

  Radley Balko

  iPod crackdown

• No Recycling Allowed

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Campaign finance rules

• Landed Gentry

  Josh Brokaw

  Farm subsidies and rental rates

• Phones and the Fourth

  Brian Doherty

  Post-arrest searches

• Super Chickens

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Beating bird flu

• Felonious Speeches

  Jacob Sullum

  ‘Material support' for terrorism

• Death Penalty, RIP

  Radley Balko

  Capital punishment in Illinois

• Dumb and Dumber

  Peter Suderman

  Obama's regulatory reform

• Liberating Livery Cars

  Stephen J. Smith

  NYC taxi regulations

• Budget Battle Prequel

  Brian Doherty

  Follow-Up

Soundbites

• Knowing the Score

  Peter Suderman

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• SWAT Reform

Columns

• Cyberwar Is Harder Than It Looks

  Ronald Bailey

  The Internet's vulnerability to attacks has been exaggerated.

• The "War on Cops" That Isn't

  Radley Balko

  Despite what you may have read, it's safer to be a police officer today than it has been in 35 years.

• Passive Resistance

  Jacob Sullum

  Excluding inactivity from the Commerce Clause still leaves Congress with far too much power.

• Education Showdown

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  The irresistible force of school reform meets the immovable object of teachers unions.

• Not So Stagnant

  Brink Lindsey

  Are the good times really over for good?

• The Post-Postal Society?

  Greg Beato

  The U.S. Postal Service struggles to stay self-sufficient.

• A Bankrupt Option

  Veronique de Rugy

  States should not be allowed to file for bankruptcy.

• The All-New Failure of the New Economics

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Unemployment rates and other useless measurements

Features

• Commit Yourself

  Daniel Akst

  Self-control in the age of abundance

Interviews

• Joel Klein

  Nick Gillespie

  "We have a 19th-century classroom model in the 21st century."

• Paul Pastorek

  Nick Gillespie

  "What Katrina did was it allowed us to think differently."

• Jeb Bush on Disrupting the Educational Status Quo

  Nick Gillespie

  "Monopolies don't want to have direct competition."

• Jay Greene

  Nick Gillespie

  "I'm very agnostic about what form choice must take."

• Constitutional Refuseniks

  Radley Balko

  Stewart Rhodes on his controversial group the Oath Keepers and the orders they won't obey

Culture & Reviews

• Man vs. the State

  Damon W. Root

  Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow, big government, and liberal orthodoxy.

• Conservatainment

  Peter Suderman

  The perennial right-wing plot to seize Hollywood from liberals

• Atlas Shrugged: The Movie

  Brian Doherty

  Scenes from the 38-year struggle to film Ayn Rand's famous novel

Briefly Noted

• Briefly Noted: Suburban Punks Rule

  Brian Doherty

• Briefly Noted: Turing Triumph

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Briefly Noted: Film Follies

  Jesse Walker

• Briefly Noted: Politics Corrupts Money

  Jacob Sullum

• Briefly Noted: HealCam

  Radley Balko

Artifact

• Heads Under the Treads

  Jesse Walker