November 1995

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Editor's Notes

• We, Spy

  Brian Doherty

  The ruinous effects of outlawing technologies.

• Chip Off the Block

  Nick Gillespie

  V-Chip legislation is doubly awful.

• Honest Admission

  Virginia Postrel

  Even Progressive planners knew some migration defies regulation.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Go Figure

  Brian Doherty

  Government numbers often don't add up.

• Renovating Rent Control

  Nick Gillespie

  California weakens price controls. Will New York be next?

• Stocks and Bondage

  Ed Carson

  How Social Security stacks up against stocks and bonds

• The Watchers

  Rick Henderson

  Using delinquent parents to justify government snooping

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Adopting Racism

  Nina Shokraii

  The most pernicious racial set-aside

• Rates of Kahn

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  All Aboard Air Al!

• Attorneys' Fleece

  Mark S. Pulliam

  Some potential dangers of "loser-pays"

• Suffer the Missing Children?

  Tadd Wilson

  Taxpayer dollars continue to disappear while children don't.

Features

• Biology: 2001

  Gregory Benford

  Understanding culture, technology, and politics in "The Biological Century"

• Shooting Blind

  William R. Tonso

  Press coverage of the "assault weapon" controversy suggests that most jounalists know very little about gunsand are not interested in learning.

Interviews

• Frontier Freedom

  Rick Henderson & William H. Mellor III

  Former Sen. Malcolm Wallop on Republican promises, the limits of federal authority, and the way of the West

Book Reviews

• Keep it Simple, Solons

  Michael McMenamin

• Brief Review

  Jacob Sullum

• Cyberspace Cadet

  Steven Hayward

• Rand the Living

  Chris Matthew Sciabarra

• Blurred Vision

  Kenneth Silber