November 2009

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Editor's Notes

• The Unknown War

  Matt Welch

  The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more?

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

  20,000 nations above the sea, anatomy of a child pornographer...

Citings

• Peace With Poppies

  Jacob Sullum

  Opium in Afghanistan

• Viva Viagra No More

  Ronald Bailey

  Mommy, what's E.D.?

• Mobile Democracy

  Radley Balko

  Cell phones vs. jail cells

• TARP Payback

  Brian Doherty

  Pay czar in action

• Cuba's Craigslist

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Online black markets

• Trailer Failure

  Radley Balko

  More FEMA follies

• Weighty Arguments

  Peter Suderman

  Insuring our waistlines

• Camera Cash

  Bill Flanigen

  Traffic light surveillance

• Target: Google

  Peter Suderman

  Antitrust run amok

• Layoff Blues

  Brian Doherty

  Job retraining failure

• Starship Salvation

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Icelandic currency in space

• Iranian Rebellion Grows on the Web

  Bill Flanigen

Soundbites

• Driven Crazy

  Michael C. Moynihan

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Comics for Freedom Lovers

  Peter Bagge

Columns

• Hollywood Comrades

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Why the Soviets were such lovable movie villains.

• A Hard Pill to Swallow

  Jacob Sullum

  Is the stimulus turning the economy around?

• Fading Print

  Greg Beato

  How we will survive without newspapers

• The Myth of the Multiplier

  Veronique de Rugy

  Why the stimulus package hasn't reduced unemployment

Features

• Fed Up

  Brian Doherty

  The political movement to curtail the Federal Reserve goes from fringe to mainstream.

Interviews

• 'The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs'

  Matt Welch

  Publisher and flat-tax Republican Steve Forbes on 1930s-style economic policies, the news industry, and the future of the GOP

Debates

• Are Property Rights Enough?

  Kerry Howley, Todd Seavey & Daniel McCarthy

  Should libertarians care about cultural values? A reason debate.

Culture & Reviews

• Briefly Noted: Tom Paine, Drawn

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Briefly Noted: Commie Art

  Matt Welch

• Briefly Noted: Battlestar Philosophica

  Peter Suderman

• Briefly Noted: After the Bomb, the Museum

  Bill Flanigen

• Briefly Noted: A Pirate Road Movie

  Jesse Walker

• The Way to Sesame Street

  Jesse Walker

  The politics of children's television

Book Reviews

• Tyranny of the Minority

  Damon W. Root

  James MacGregor Burns' biased and cartoonish new history of the Supreme Court

• The Peril of Palatability

  Jacob Sullum

  A former FDA chief sounds the alarm about dangerously delicious food.

• The Cold War Never Ended

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Twenty years later, historians still can't figure out why the West won.

Artifacts

• Lights Out

  Katherine Mangu-Ward