Issues : October 1997 - Reason Magazine

October 1997

Swap Meat

Brian Doherty

Friends and critics miss the point on NAFTA.
Dealers' Choices

Jacob Sullum

The tobacco companies have renounced the principles that made it possible to defend them.
The Nail File

Virginia Postrel

The economic meaning of manicures

Readin', Russians, and Romance

Charles Paul Freund

So Tolstoy's not Russia's best seller? When was he?
Planet Reich

Thomas W. Hazlett

Thanks for the memoirs
Unlovely Spam

Michael W. Lynch

Efforts to deter unsolicited e-mail may cause more problems than they would solve.
Bones of Contention

John J. Miller

A federal law stands between scientists and America's prehistoric past.
The Tin Drum Meets the Tin Badge

Charles Oliver

How a classic 1979 film suddenly turned into child porn
Free To Commit

Walter Olson

"Covenant marriage" could strengthen families. So why are traditionalists lukewarm?

Wild Success

Karl Hess Jr.

Saving endangered wildlife once meant trampled crops and violent death to the villagers of Southern Africa. Now community-based capitalism is turning once-fearsome pests into valuable sources of wealth.
Let's Make a Deal

Jacob Sullum

As the proposed tobacco settlement heads to Congress, the anti-smoking movement is divided over whether it's a good deal after all. A guide to the players, the alliances they've established, and who hopes to get what.

The Peters Principles

Virginia Postrel

The management gury as playground director, provacateur, and passionate defender of open societies.