October 2008

(view high-resolution version)

Editor's Notes

• Illegal Editor

  Matt Welch

  Immigration restrictions hurt legal residents.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Pakistani Pork

  Kerry Howley

  Military budget bungle

• Buying Low

  Ronald Bailey

  The green real estate boom

• Don't Drink the Water

  Radley Balko

  The politics of rain

• Fake Speed Bumps

  Mike Riggs

  Pound foolish in Philly

• Riding Roughshod

  Adrian Moore

  Where not to drive

• Keep It Clean

  David Weigel

  Supreme Court laundry

• Cheaters Prosper

  Mike Riggs

  Corruption on the Nile

• Dems for Vouchers

  Lisa Snell

  School choice surprise

• Campaign Burdens

  Jacob Sullum

  Rich man, poor incumbent

• Three-Parent Families

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Genetics trump politics

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Generation F

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Screening the Military

  Evan Wright

Columns

• Would President McCain Obey the Law?

  Jacob Sullum

  Parsing the candidate's straight talk on wiretapping Americans

• Rant: Burn the "Speculators"!

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Why are airlines sounding the alarm against one of their favorite activities?

• Man's Best Friend Forever

  Greg Beato

  Cloning dogs for love and profit

• Obama's Wars

  David Weigel

  Liberal interventionism makes a comeback

Features

• Who Killed Real ID?

  David Weigel

  An unlikely coalition wins a post-9/11 victory for civil liberties

• What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?

  Shikha Dalmia & Michael Flynn

  A guide to America's labyrinthine immigration bureaucracy

• The One-Man Wall

  Kerry Howley

  How a single Arizona legislator's obsession has changed immigration policy for the worse

• Get in Line!

  Kerry Howley

  Will Americans have to prove their right to work via an error-plagued database?

Interviews

• The Rational Environmentalist

  Ronald Bailey

  Bjorn Lomborg on the priorities that should come before global warming

Culture & Reviews

• The Great Recycler

  Jesse Walker

  The late Bruce Conner made lasting art out of junk.

• The Cunning Linguist

  Marty Beckerman

  George Carlin's literary genius

• When Free Love Died

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Why the sexual revolution plays only in reruns

• Why Opting Out Is No "Third Way"

  Will Wilkinson

  The perplexing banality of "libertarian paternalism"

Book Reviews

• Defaming Milton Friedman

  Johan Norberg

  Naomi Klein's disastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist

• Zoning Toward Oblivion

  Damon W. Root

  How the Supreme Court's decision in Euclid v. Ambler shaped modern America

Artifacts

• Uncle Satchmo?

  Charles Paul Freund