November 2008

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Editor's Notes

• Scared Straight

  Matt Welch

  Notes from our nation's awful political spectacles

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Card Sharks

  David Weigel

  Gift certificate rights?

• Advil Strip Search

  Jacob Sullum

  Fourth Amendment victory

• Bourgeois Boom

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Expanding middle class

• Back to Court

  Jacob Sullum

  Heller v. D.C. II

• Congress of Angels

  Ronald Bailey

  'Near-perfect' ethics record

• Talk of the Town

  Kerry Howley

  Free speech in Philly

• Digital Drinks

  Mike Riggs

  Beer Pong controversy

• Publius Blogs

  Radley Balko

  Protecting online anonymity

• Mississippi Fires Medical Examiner Steven Hayne

  Radley Balko

• Moralistic Medicine

  Ronald Bailey

  Fundamentalist pharmacists

Soundbites

• The Dangerous Failure of McCain-Feingold

  Matt Welch

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Ask a Mexican

  Gustavo Arellano

Columns

• Follow State Law, Go Directly to Jail

  Jacob Sullum

  Medical marijuana makes conservatives forget federalism

• Divided in Nevada

  David Weigel

  In America's most libertarian state, libertarians don't know how they'll vote

• Fear of a Unified Government

  Veronique de Rugy

  What happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency?

• Every Man a Derrida

  Tim Cavanaugh

  A nation on the verge of self-deconstructing

• Garden Gnome Politics

  Greg Beato

  The age-old battle over landscape expression

Features

• Beyond the Fairness Doctrine

  Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC.

Interviews

• Bob Barr Talks

  David Weigel

  The best-known nominee in Libertarian Party history talks to reason about war, drugs, pornography, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ayn Rand.

Symposiums

• Is There Any Hope For This Man?

  Katherine Mangu-Ward, Virginia Postrel, Brink Lindsey, Richard Epstein, Bruce Bartlett, Jonathan Rauch & Deirdre McCloskey

  Assessments of Barack Obama from planet reason

Culture & Reviews

• Idiocracy Now!

  David Weigel

  Hollywood makes a dumb movie about dumb voters.

• 30 Years of Dallas

  Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

  The TV show that won the Cold War

Book Reviews

• A Transformation on Race

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Barack Obama's "post-racial" posture reflects a quiet but radical shift in liberal ideas about race in America

• Between Iraq and a Soft Place

  Jim Henley

  Democrats counter with a kinder, gentler interventionism

• The Republican Civil War

  Daniel McCarthy

  Can the GOP make a comeback by embracing the welfare state?

Artifacts

• Emo Rescue

  Mike Riggs