October 2001

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Let's Talk About Sex

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Mosquito Holocaust

  Brian Doherty

• Fist Principles

  Heidi Pike-Johnson

• Sky High Taxes

  Jeff Taylor

• Sex Ed 101

  Michael W. Lynch

• Union Curses

  Michael W. Lynch

• DNA on Demand

  Rhys Southan

• Shrine of Doom

  Rhys Southan

• Political Elvis

  Sara Rimensnyder

• Shock Therapy

  Sara Rimensnyder

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Guerrilla Unschooling

  Rhys Southan

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in REASON

Data

• Data: Survey Says

  Michael W. Lynch

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Soviet Reunion

  Cathy Young

  Russia's future is looking frighteningly like its past.

• No Controlling Authority

  Michael W. Lynch

  The economy is too complex for even Alan Greenspan to handle.

• Blastocyst Brouhaha

  Ronald Bailey

  Which human cells count as people?

Features

• Internal Constraints

  Cathy Young & Michael W. Lynch

  John McWhorter, author of the controversial Losing the Race, on what's really holding African Americans back.

• School's Out

  Daniel H. Pink

  Get ready for the new age of individualized education

• Reef Madness

  Ronald Bailey

  How Alabama fishermen are repopulating the sea.

• Zoned to Extinction

  Sean Paige

  Overzealous regulation may soon render commercial fishermen a dying breed

Culture & Reviews

• Brutal History

  Amy Sturgis

  Conflict between whites and Native Americans didn't end at Wounded Knee.

• The Orange Revolution

  Brian Doherty

  How "nut country" conquered America

• Persuade and Be Free

  Deirdre McCloskey

  A new road to Friedrich Hayek

• Standards Issue

  Mike Godwin

  The Supreme Court, "community standards," and the Internet

• Victim of the Sexual Revolution

  Nick Gillespie

  Terry Southern's telling trip from hipster to has-been

Artifacts

• Artifact: Red Errings

  Charles Paul Freund