November 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Striving for Parity

  Nick Gillespie

  The insidious logic behind the SAT's "striver" measure.

• External Cost

  Virginia Postrel

  The dangers of calling everything pollution.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Blood Drive

  Brian Doherty

• Writer Registration

  Brian Doherty

• Dumb Growth

  Jesse Walker

• OK to Drive?

  Jacob Sullum

• Fast Burn

  Mariel Garza

• Data: Making It by Michael W. Lynch

  Michael W. Lynch

• Police Math

  RiShawn Biddle

• Field of Nightmares

  Ryan H. Sager

• Student Bodies

  Ryan H. Sager

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

• 25 years ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quote

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Censory Deception

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Conservatives' foolish case for regulating speech.

• Manly Pursuits

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington considers the challenges facing plumbers, wrestlers, and truck drivers.

• Dial 'O' for Outrage: The Sequel

  Walter Olson

  Tales from an overlawyered America.

Features

• Adoption Pains

  Jacob Sullum

  Why does the system make it so hard to give an orphan a home?

• Falling for the Gap

  Adam Clayton Powell III

  Whatever happened to the "digital divide"?

• Taking It to the Streets

  David B. Kopel

  Why treating guns like cars might not be such a bad idea.

• Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

  Margaret Davidson

  Youth curfews are bad ideas whose time has come.

• Binge and Purge

  Matthew Herper

  Scolding students won't make them safer.

• Fee Fighters

  RiShawn Biddle

  Should students be forced to subsidize campus activities?

• After Socialism

  Virginia Postrel

  Now the greatest threats to freedom come from those seeking stability and the "one best way."

Culture & Reviews

• Orders of the Day

  Douglass North

• Charge It!

  James B. Twitchell

• Going Global

  Kanchan Limaye

Artifacts

• Artifact: Parallax Views

  Charles Paul Freund