October 1998

(view high-resolution version)

Editor's Note

• Discovery Channels

  Rick Henderson

  In the marketplace, truth is always a hot commodity.

• The Claims of Nature

  Virginia Postrel

  The "can gays change" debate is dodging the main issues.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• High Stakes

  Abe Crystal

• I'll Take That

  Abe Crystal

• Dead Air

  Jason Brooks

• Pediatric Politics

  Jason Brooks

• Can't Bear It

  Jacob Sullum

• Nicotine Buzz

  Jacob Sullum

• Painful Reminder

  Jacob Sullum

• Dirty Dancing

  Michael W. Lynch

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Does America Hate Its HMOs?

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Let's Regulate Cable Now!

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Oops. Didn't we already do that?

• Capital Letters: Covering the Spreads

  Michael W. Lynch

• Numbers Game

  Deroy Murdock

  North Carolina educrats may shut down the successful Healthy Start charter school because it enrolls "too many" blacks.

• Neither Nationalist nor Socialist

  Walter Olson

  How the Swiss kept their freedom in World War II

• Capital Letters: Covering the Spreads

  Michael W. Lynch

Features

• The Politics of Permanent Immigration

  John J. Miller

  How pro-immigration forces triumphed--and why they're likely to keep doing so.

• Green Redlining

  Henry Payne

  How rules against "environmental racism" hurt poor minorities most of all.How rules against "environmental racism" hurt poor minorities most of all.

• Pervasive Problem

  Jonathan D. Wallace

  The 1978 Supreme Court decision allowing censorship of dirty words on radio threatens free speech in cyberspace.

Interviews

• Stars in Her Eyes

  Virginia Postrel & Steven R. Postrel

  Astronomer Sallie Baliunas on sunspots, global warming, and the benefits of privately funded science

Book Reviews

• Cultivating Culture

  Nick Gillespie

• Aging Bulls

  Charles Oliver

• Revolutionary History

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

Artifact

• Artifact: Netbrow

  Charles Paul Freund