November 2011

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Editor's Note

• Creation Myth

  Matt Welch

  Governments are worse than no good at “creating jobs.”

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Perverted Justice

  Jacob Sullum

Citings

• Pastafarians Win!

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Freedom from religion

• Sign Here

  Jacob Sullum

  Free speech victory

• Biologists Bite Back

  Ronald Bailey

  EPA biotech overreach

• Sex Crimes

  Hannah Burak

  Due process on campus

• Scaredy Cats

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  School of hard knocks

• Immigrants and Jobs

  Hannah Burak

  The more, the merrier

• Green Helmets

  Ronald Bailey

  U.N. enviro-enforcers

• Sad Meals

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  How do you like them apples?

• Underinsured

  Peter Suderman

  State exchange failure

• Taxi Turf Battle

  Lucy Steigerwald

  Pittsburgh cab challenge

• Black Behind Bars

  Mike Riggs

  NAACP slams the drug war

• No Discourse Here

  Jacob Sullum

  Ban on political groups

• Casket Cartel Buried

  Damon W. Root

  Monks win legal victory

• Cory Maye Free After 10 Years

  Jacob Sullum

Soundbites

• Buy My Wife, Please!

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago In Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• How to Photograph Cops

Columns

• TMI Nation

  Greg Beato

  How to protect your reputation in the digital age

• Upgrading the U.S.A.

  Veronique de Rugy

  How to fix the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio

• The Miracle of Oil From Sand

  Ronald Bailey

  A visit to Alberta’s energy future

• Amending the 10th Amendment

  Jacob Sullum

  Rick Perry’s infidelity to federalism is more troubling than his fidelity to Christianity.

Features

• Privatizing the Chesapeake

  Rona Kobell

  After seeing its oyster fishery almost depleted, Maryland finally introduces aquaculture and private leasing.

• Get a Job!

  Free market ideas for reducing unemployment

• The Upper-Class Entitlement

  Anthony Randazzo & Dean Stansel

  It’s time to end the mortgage interest deduction.

Interviews

• Our Wealthier World

  Ronald Bailey

  World Bank economist Kirk Hamilton explains how China is growing while the U.S. flirts with asset depreciation.

Culture & Reviews

• The Facebook Friend in the Plastic Bubble

  Jesse Walker

  Are we filtering ourselves to death?

• Iceland Loses Its Banks, Finds Its Wealth

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Ultima Thule learns that small is beautiful.

• Ron Swanson vs. the State

  John Payne

  The politics of Parks and Recreation

• Sucking in the American Century

  Tim Cavanaugh

  A stunt novel tracks the rise of the state and the decline of the country.

Briefly Noted

• Fighting the Power

  Peter Suderman

• Creative Construction

  Lucy Steigerwald

• Honest Bill

  Jacob Sullum

• Good News About Bad Habits

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• How Earth’s Garden Grows

  Ronald Bailey

Artifact

• The Past of the Future of the Deficit

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  When Ridley Scott took on the national debt.