October 2009

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Editor's Notes

• The Politics of Memory

  Matt Welch

  What's too painful to remember we simply choose to repeat.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Killer Painkillers

  Bill Flanigen

  The war on Tylenol

• Permanent Secrecy

  Damon W. Root

  The spy who wouldn't leave

• Hiding Online

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Your own private Internet

• Muzzled Mommies

  Peter Suderman

  The FTC vs. bloggers

• Speak Freely

  Jacob Sullum

  Limits on 'electioneering'

• Just Say No

  Brian Doherty

  Health care nullification

• Peak Oil, Revisited

  Ronald Bailey

• Swiss Apartheid?

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Alpine real estate

• Regulating Chakras

  Amanda Carey

  Yogis bear licenses

• Bench Bust

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Bus stop crackdown

• Scars Behind Bars

  Bill Flanigen

  The prison rape problem

• Dogs vs. DNA

  Radley Balko

  K-9 testimony debunked

• More Pot, Less Crime

  Jacob Sullum

  Drug laws at home and abroad

Soundbites

• The Bloggers' Historian

  Jesse Walker

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Lessons for Liberty

  Matt Welch

Columns

• The Right to a Guilty Verdict

  Jacob Sullum

  Obama's empty promise of due process for terrorism suspects

• Using Unions As Weapons

  Veronique de Rugy

  UPS and FedEx face off in Congress instead of the marketplace.

• The Debtorship Society

  Tim Cavanaugh

  More Americans became "homeowners" while owning less and less of their homes.

• Sarah Palin, Maverick at Last

  Greg Beato

  Mama Grizzly becomes the first real politician of the Internet era.

Features

• Payday of Reckoning

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  New laws aimed at kneecapping payday lenders will end up hurting the poor.

• The Paranoid Center

  Jesse Walker

  How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent

Interviews

• 'What You're Left With Is Libertarianism'

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld on what guys like to read, what meth addicts do to toasters, and why liberals and conservatives are so annoying

Symposiums

• Inflation Returns!

  Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Schiff, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Scott Sumner, Randall Parker, James Grant, Steven Gjerstad, Vernon Smith & Donald Luskin

  Free market economists debate the prospects, fears, and even hopes for rising prices in post-crises America

Culture & Reviews

• The Web Saves Old Books

  Brian Doherty

• Enjoy the Peepshow

  Bill Flanigen

• Embalming the Watchmen

  Peter Suderman

• Little Libertarians

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Virtually Real

  Radley Balko

• When Columbus Discovered Modern Architecture

  Radley Balko

  Private philanthropy transforms a small Midwestern town into an architectural marvel.

• Conservatives With Pink Cheeks

  Nick Gillespie

  Joe Scarborough stands athwart history, yelling "slow down."

Artifacts

• Inflation and You: Partners in freedom

  Tim Cavanaugh

  The Fed's comic-book propaganda.