November 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editors Note: Prohibition, Old and New

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Reason News

• Letters

Citings

• Zombie Farmers

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Subsidies for the dead

• Reconstruction Mess

  Kerry Howley

  Adventures in nation building

• Bad Air

  Michael C. Moynihan

  The sick man of Korea

• Does 21 Save Lives?

  Jacob Sullum

  Drinking ages and traffic fatalities

• Persecuted Pills

  Radley Balko

  Fake felonies in Florida

• Speed for Sale

  Juliet Samuel

  Highway robbery in France

• Let 'em Roam

  Brian Doherty

  More immigrants, less crime

• Dating Discord

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Out of tune with eHarmony

• Free Drugs!

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Companies compete on cheap meds

• Post-Soviet Sex

  Jonathan Blanks

  Mating for the motherland

• Spliff Split

  Jacob Sullum

  Candidates on marijuana

Soundbites

• The Man Who Wanted to Be Left Alone

  Jacob Sullum

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  November 1977

Data

• Begging Pardon

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• An Economist at the Movies

  Tyler Cowen

Columns

• John Edwards vs. the Lobbyists

  David Weigel

  A presidential candidate promises to clean up Washington--by trashing the First Amendment

• Rant: Get Government Out of the Bathroom!

  Nick Gillespie

  How the GOP should respond to the Larry Craig scandal

• Amusing Ourselves to Depth

  Greg Beato

  Is The Onion our most intelligent newspaper?

Features

• Prohibition Returns!

  David Harsanyi

  Teetotaling do-gooders attack your right to drink

• Breaking Up the Forensics Monopoly

  Roger Koppl

  Eight ways to fix a broken system

• CSI: Mississippi

  Radley Balko

  A case study in expert testimony gone horribly wrong

Interviews

• 'The Trouble Is the West'

  Rogier van Bakel

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West.

Culture & Reviews

• Much Ado About Shopping

  Juliet Samuel

  Samizdat chick lit in Saudi Arabia

• The Day of the Flying Fish

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Globalization and the making of modern sushi

Book Reviews

• The Caudillo in His Labyrinth

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Hugo Chavez and his enablers

• Eight Million Sots in the Naked City

  Jackson Kuhl

  How Prohibition was imposed on, and rejected by, New York

Artifacts

• Artifact: Licensing Global Terror

  Nick Gillespie