October 2002

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Editor's Note

• Editor's Note

  Nick Gillespie

Print Articles

• Beltway Snipe Hunt

  Jesse Walker

Cartoons

• Who's To Blame for 9-11?

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Illegal Education?

  Brian Doherty

  Intimidating homeschoolers

• I Spy

  Brian Doherty

  Nosy neighbors

• Conventional Wisdom

  John Pike

  Municipal money pits

• History's Dustbin

  Jeremy Lott

  Recycling cutbacks

• Persistent Protesters

  Jeremy Lott

  Slamming Noriega's alma mater

• Party Poopers

  Jacob Sullum

  Anti-rave legislation

• Privacy Test

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Medical records and the police

• Trashy Dream Houses

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Home and garbage

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago

Data

• DATA: Taxing Smokes

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes and Sources

Columns

• One Nation, Many Gods

  Cathy Young

  Vouchers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the separation of church and state

• Laughter in the Ruins

  Jesse Walker

  What hasn't changed since 9/11.

• Making a Killing in Business

  Michael W. Lynch

  When crime pays, there will be plenty of criminals.

Features

• Then and Now: Women's progress, 1960-present

  Catherine Seipp

• You've Lost Your Way, Baby

  Catherine Seipp

  How organized feminism has made itself irrelevant

• Face the Facts

  Facial recognition technology?s troubled past -- and troubling future.

• Closing the Books

  Jeffrey Benner

  Open government after 9/11.

• The Forever War

  Jacob Sullum

  How long can an emergency last?

• Freedom for Safety

  Nick Gillespie

  An old trade -- and a useless one

• Fixing Foreign Policy

  Ted Galen Carpenter

  How the U.S. should wage the war on terror.

Interviews

• Biology vs. the Blank Slate

  Nick Gillespie & Ronald Bailey

  Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker deconstructs the great myths about how the mind works.

• The Experimental Economist

  Nick Gillespie & Michael W. Lynch

  Nobel laureate Vernon Smith takes markets places they've never been before.

Culture & Reviews

• Performance Anxiety

  Jeremy Lott

  The tragedy of Asian success

• Hidden Country

  Damon W. Root

  The secret family tree of country music

• Smash! Pow! Bam!

  Jeremy Lott

  Why superheroes go bankrupt

• Dangerous Thinkers

  Mark Goldblatt

  20th-century philosophers' love affair with totalitarianism

• Bitch Goddess

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Ann Coulter's perverse appeal

Artifact

• Artifact: No Go Logo

  Jesse Walker

  Creepy agency casts evil eye on Planet Earth