October 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Beyond Econ. 101

  Nick Gillespie

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Reason News

• Letters

Citings

• Chinese Cha Cha

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Dance dance revolution

• Google on Guard

  Jesse Walker

  Your jungle home security system

• Get the Picture?

  Jeff Taylor

  Patent intimidation

• Nosy Neighbors

  Jacob Sullum

  U.S.-Mexican wiretap cooperation

• Name Check

  Kerry Howley

  Immigrants in the dark

• Stay in the Stasi Suite

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Communist Nostalgia

• Gone Fishin'

  Ronald Bailey

  Stream rentals restore trout

• Safe Email 4 U!

  Brian Doherty

  The Constitution applies online too

• Bad Touch

  Jonathan Blanks

  Hands off at school

• Official Witches

  David Weigel

  Magic Monopoly

• Dateline's Predators

  Radley Balko

  NBC's catch and release program

Soundbites

• Filming for Freedom

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  October 1977

Data

• Kick 'Em While They're Down

  Jacob Sullum

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Lists: What's Your Source for That?

  Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information.

Columns

• Flying Blind in a Red-Tape Blizzard

  Jonathan Rauch

  How George W. Bush became the regulator in chief

• Bleeding into the Mainstream

  Greg Beato

  How John McCain Popularized Human Cockfighting

• Tuning Out the World

  David Weigel

  Protectionism takes root in both parties.

• Rant: Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency

  Gene Healy

  How conservatives made peace with executive power.

Features

• Ties That Bind

  Ronald Bailey

  The canonical conflict-of-interest cases

• The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters

  Bryan Caplan

  (And we're all stupid voters.)

• Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You?

  Ronald Bailey

  The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest"

• The Next Iranian Revolution

  Michael J. Totten

  How armed exiles are working to topple Tehran's Islamic Government

Culture & Reviews

• That's What Little Boys Are Made Of

  Cathy Young

  A "dangerous" book for adventurous boys--but not girls

• From Sky Flivver to Hydropolis

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  What happened to the science-fiction future?

Book Reviews

• Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt

  David Boaz

  What FDR had in common with the other charismatic collectivists of the 30s

• Creative Destruction vs. the New Industrial State

  Deirdre McCloskey

  The "embedded" capitalism of Joseph Schumpeter and John Kenneth Galbraith

Artifacts

• Forbidden Clothes

  Radley Balko