October 1999

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Editor's Notes

• Hillary's Generation Gap

  Nick Gillespie

  Why Social Security reform withers on the Beltway

• Dangerous Remedy

  Virginia Postrel

  The other problem with extending Medicare

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Gas Relief

  Brian Doherty

• Funeral Flowers

  Charles Paul Freund

• Boxed In

  Jonathan Block

• Killer Weed

  Jacob Sullum

• Certified Success

  Jeff Taylor

• Knife Fight

  Jesse Walker

• Witching Hour

  Jesse Walker

• Gang Bang

  Mariel Garza

• Data: Same As It Ever Was

  Nick Gillespie & Michael W. Lynch

• Equal Slime

  RiShawn Biddle

• Gun Spree

  RiShawn Biddle

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Years Ago

• 25 years ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• The Center of the Universe

  Michael W. Lynch

  In which our man in Washington dines with dairymen, ponders politics with gay Republicans, and investigates interns.

• Tiny Bubbles

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Old money and the vision thing

• Big Guns

  Walter Olson

  Plaintiffs' lawyers declare themselves the "fourth branch of government" and go after firearms

Features

• How Do You Misspell Relief?

  David Mastio

  The GOP's empty promises of regulatory reform

• Trial by Fury

  Helen Searls

  How radical legal theory from America is destroying civil liberties in Great Britain.

• Treasure of La Sierra

  Karl Hess Jr. & Tom Wolf

  Colorado's embattled Taylor Ranch is the West writ small. Here's how capitalism may conserve it.

• Truth, Terror and David Trimble

  Michael McMenamin

  Is the Nobel Peace Prize winner complicit in murder? What the Brits can teach Americans about libel law.

• Personal Soundtracks

  RiShawn Biddle

  Two decades of mix-and-match music--and a more harmonious world

• Bottle Battle

  Stanton Peele

  The latest fight over wine labels is part of the ongoing struggle between wets and drys

• Gambler's Web

  Nick Gillespie, James Ledbetter & Tom W. Bell

  Why online betting can't be stopped--and why Washington shouldn't bother trying.

Culture & Reviews

• Artful Dodger

  David Henderson

• Ways to Be Wrong

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

• Gross Out

  Steve Kurtz

Artifacts

• Artifact: Coin of the Realm

  Charles Paul Freund