October 1994

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Editor's Notes

• Affirmative Reaction

  Brian Doherty

  Interethnic wars and the absurdity of racial classification.

• New Alliance Parties

  Virginia Postrel

  Strange bedfellows in a "post-ideological" age?

Letters

• Letters

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Boob-Tube Babble-On

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Why more TV is better TV

• Reclaiming the Vast Wasteland

  Nick Gillespie

  Made-from-TV movies aren't always cinematic eyesores.

• Preservation Acts

  Rick Henderson

  The property-rights movement moves out of the shadows.

• Crime Time

  Martin Morse Wooster

  The age of "Kojak liberals"

• Defending the President

  Michael McMenamin

  A non-Nixonian strategy for avoiding that messy sexual harassment trial

Features

• The New Anti-Welfare States

  John Hood

  While states experiment with real change, Clinton threatens to end welfare reform as we know it.

• The Great Tax Revolt of 1994

  Stephen Moore & Dean Stansel

  Will anti-tax initiatives sweep the states this fall?

• Voodoo Social Policy

  Jacob Sullum

  Exorcising the twin demons, guns and drugs

Interviews

• Life, Liberty, and the ACLU

  Cathy Young

  Nadine Strossen, president of the American Cibil Liberties Union, on rights in the age of P.C.

Book Reviews

• An FDA Fable

  Robert Higgs

• A Right to Welfare?

  William H. Mellor III

• Right Cross

  Rick Henderson

• Reactionary Feminism

  Tama Starr