November 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Cultural Freedom

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Taking Out Arnold

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Intelligence Failure

  Jesse Walker

  Protecting us from Gore supporters

• Arabian Idol

  Charles Paul Freund

  Reality TV tames nationalism

• Anti-Consumerist Capitalism

  Julian Sanchez

  Culture jammers, sneaker peddlers

• Golden Bear?

  Matt Welch

  California's surprising economy

• No Strings on Me

  Jesse Walker

  Librarians fight filters

• Keeping Psychics Honest

  Matt Welch

  Only in San Fran, Part XXIX

• Envy Your Kids

  Ronald Bailey

  Income keeps growing

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Julian Sanchez

  Dirty Words

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data

  Julian Sanchez

  Free Fall

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Roy Moore's Monument

  Cathy Young

  Religion has a place in the public square -- but not an exclusive one.

• Beyond Public and Private

  Jesse Walker

  Business improvement districts don't fit our ordinary categories.

• Rant: Tinselectomy

  Nick Gillespie

  How much bad behavior does Hollywood cause?

Features

• Kroger Babb's Roadshow

  Joe Bob Briggs

  How a long-running movie walked the thin line between exploitation and education.

• Show Us Your Money

  John Berlau

  The USA PATRIOT Act lets the feds spy on your finances. But does it help catch terrorists?

• The Spam Wars

  Wendy M. Grossman

  How should the Internet deal with junk mail?

Culture & Reviews

• Eichmann in Hogwarts

  Julian Sanchez

  Harry Potter and the banality of evil.

• Weasels Ripped Our Flesh

  Charles Paul Freund

  The forgotten world of men's adventure magazines.

• Queer Science

  Deirdre McCloskey

  A data-bending psychologist confirms what he already knew about gays and transsexuals.

• The Gipper and the Hedgehog

  Glenn Garvin

  How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world.

• Defending Tolerance

  Loren Lomasky

  Values, liberty, and democracy.

• Talking With Terrorists

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Jessica Stern's new book reports from the front lines of the War on Terror.

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Baghdad, Prairie Style