November 1997

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Editor's Notes

• Prisoners' Dilemma

  Nick Gillespie

  Private jails are easier to reform.

• Fighting Words

  Virginia Postrel

  The sex talk pundits can't handle

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Planning Pratfalls

  Adrian Moore

• Faithful Incentives

  Alexander Volokh

• Tangled Web Pages

  Brian Doherty

• St. Thomas's Dumbbell

  Charles Paul Freund

• Rolling Off the Rolls

  Rick Henderson & James Plummer

• Gang Bang

  Jacob Sullum

• General Confusion

  Jacob Sullum

• Vice Charge

  Jacob Sullum

• Limits to Growth

  Michael W. Lynch

• Orchestral Maneuvers

  Nick Gillespie

• National Pork Service?

  Rick Henderson

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Literature in Chains

  Charles Paul Freund

  Are superstore databases turning books into pretzels?

• Computer Games

  James V. DeLong

  The crime of Internet subsidies

• Presidential Softball

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Clinton gets blanked by the Supremes.

• Say What?

  Walter Olson

  Civil rights enforcers go after "accent discrimination."

• Fine Wines and Wine Fines

  James Plummer

  Restrictions on interstate sales of alcoholic beverages turn oenophiles into smugglers.

• New Waterworld Order

  Kenneth Silber

  Real offshore havens are on the horizon.

Features

• Climate Controls

  Gregory Benford

  If we treated global warming as a technical problem instead of a moral outrage, we could cool the world.

• Software Pirates

  Alexander Volokh

  Congress never gave the FDA power to control medical practice. But the agency seized it anyway--by regulating software and computers.

Interviews

• Stand-Up Guy

  Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz

  Comedian Drew Carey on network censors, Hollywood guilt, and why he likes eating at Bob's Big Boy.

Book Reviews

• Critique of Pure Skepticism

  Brian Doherty

• Good Genes

  Jack Hirshleifer

• Kill Amtrak Now!

  Robert Poole