October 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Virtual Community, Real Debate

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• DIY Sci-Fi

  Jeff Taylor

  Science fiction, science fact.

• Millions of Gandhis

  Jesse Walker

  The power of nonviolent revolution.

• Passing Gas

  Daniel Koffler

  Energy bill giveaways.

• Honest Agents

  Daniel Koffler

  Narcs on the Web.

• Porn Inspectors

  Julian Sanchez

  Adult industry fights tight rules.

• How Reforms Evolve

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Creationists push "bill of rights".

• Creative Accounting

  Ronald Bailey

  Taking stock of big ideas.

• Police Tricks

  Kerry Howley

  Shame and the sex trade.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Fifth Columnist

  Julian Sanchez

  John Tierney interviewed by Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• Thirty Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Aiding and Indebting

  Ronald Bailey

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Why The New York Times ♥s Eminent Domain

  Matt Welch

  Elite newspapers and liberal activists embrace the Kelo decision at their long-term peril.

• Pansies of New York

  Jacob Sullum

  Bend over for feel-good policing.

• Antonin Scalia, Judicial Activist

  Cathy Young

  How the conservative justice legislates from the bench.

Features

• Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business

  A Reason debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T.J. Rodgers.

• In Defense of Happy Pills

  Maia Szalavitz

  Why talk to a shrink if Prozac or Zoloft will do the trick?

• The Second Romanian Revolution Will Be Televised

  Matt Welch

  The TV show Dallas helped overthrow Ceausescu. Now gangsta rap and pop culture are driving out corrupt post-Soviet thugs.

Culture & Reviews

• The Man Who Marketed Sperm

  Kerry Howley

  From eugenicist to entrepreneur.

• Grand Theft Scapegoat

  Daniel Koffler

  The ridiculous jihad against video games.

• Racial Blind Spots

  John Hood

  The affirmative action path not taken.

• Full of Hot Air

  Sallie Baliunas

  A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity"

• Remains of the DNA

  Mike Godwin

  How clones, like the rest of us, justify their own misery

Artifacts

• Artifact: War's Nightmare Landscape

  Nick Gillespie