November 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Electoral Unenthusiasm

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• In Search Of...An Honest Republican

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Secession Fever

  Hanah Metchis

  Live free...or in Vermont

• The Big O

  Charles Paul Freund

  Erotica in the canon

• Judge, Jury, and Cop

  Hanah Metchis

  The Border Patrol's new powers

• Spamming Voters

  Jeff Taylor

  Political junk ease

• Subway Searches

  Hanah Metchis

  Your baggage, please.

• Fluid Check

  Jacob Sullum

  Drug test debunking.

• Minding Your Business

  Julian Sanchez

  Partnerships in snooping.

• Razing Objections

  Jacob Sullum

  Eminent domain curtailed.

• Selling PATRIOT

  Julian Sanchez

  Propaganda from Ashcroft

• Build a Better Mouse

  Ronald Bailey

  Of mice, men, and aging.

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Julian Sanchez

  Political Spin Doctors

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data

  Julian Sanchez

  Lost Horizon

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Defending Repression

  Cathy Young

  Why are conservatives trying to rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese internment?

• Talk Like an Egyptian

  Charles Paul Freund

  Is Arab popular culture uniformly anti-American?

• A Swift Boat Kick in the Teeth

  Matt Welch

  How the mainstream media grapple with partisans.

Features

• Meanwhile in Afghanistan

  Ben Fenwick

  The coming "warlord war" in America's other occupation.

• Mandatory Health Insurance Now!

  Ronald Bailey

  It will save private medicine -- and spur medical innovation.

• Who's Getting Your Vote?

  Reason's revealing presidential poll.

• Losing Patients

  John Graham

  A film questions Canada's nationalized health care.

Culture & Reviews

• Right-Wingers Redux

  Brian Doherty

  Are we a conservative nation? Does it matter?

• Burning Man's Piano Mover

  Brian Doherty

  Turning ruined instruments into a desert spectacle.

• Free Culture vs. Big Media

  David Post

  Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain.

• Cramped Style

  Michael De Alessi

  How regulators derailed California's most environmentally progressive development.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Stretching Condoms

  Charles Paul Freund