October 2003

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Is Schadenfreude a Good Thing?

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Everyone's a Winner!

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Lawsuit Pre-emption

  Jacob Sullum

  No Big Mac attacks

• Meat Markets

  Julian Sanchez

  PETA praises McDonald's

• That's the Ticket

  Julian Sanchez

  Summer of summonses

• The Chill Is On

  Jacob Sullum

  Fighting raves, squelching speech

• Static Controls

  Jesse Walker

  Copyright and Printer Cartridges

• Jury-Rigged

  Kerry Howley

  Sidestepping the Constitution

• Sacred Music

  Kerry Howley

  Zoning vs. groovy theology

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Nick Gillespie

  Romancing Wired Magazine

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• DATA: The Poor Get Richer

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Bipartistan Coulterism

  Cathy Young

  Who's meaner, conservatives or liberals?

• Denial of Service

  Julian Sanchez

  The battle over AmeriCorps

• Liberty Belle

  Matt Welch

  France's new libertarian youth leader

Features

• Why the States Are Broke

  John Hood

  Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws

• St. Martha

  Michael McMenamin

  Why Martha Stewart should go to heaven and the SEC should go to hell.

• Designing Rules

  Virginia Postrel

  Making room for different tastes

Culture & Reviews

• Subversive Style

  Charles Paul Freund

  Resisting the mullahs with nail polish, rock music, and great novels

• Accidental Genius

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  Is Karl Rove really Bush's brain?

• Stranger in a Strange Land

  Nick Gillespie

  The enduring American appeal of existentialism

• Enough Already

  Ronald Bailey

  A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation.

Artifacts

• Artifact

  Charles Paul Freund

  Dirty Secret