October 2010

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Editor's Note

• Reclaiming Rights

  Matt Welch

  The never-ending struggle to go about your business without fear of government sanction

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Armed and Weird

  Jacob Sullum

  Guns and free speech

• Radar Eyeballs

  Radley Balko

  Cops vs. machines

• More Hate

  Jesse Kline

  Crimes against Canadians

• Owned by the Feds

  Robby Soave

  Property confusion

• Fair Fraud

  Jacob Sullum

  ‘Honest services’ law

• YouTube Set Free

  Peter Suderman

  Web hosts not liable

• Third Party Death

  Brian Doherty

  Open primaries, closed elections?

• Restraining Arizona

  Jacob Sullum

  Fixing ‘clean’ elections

• Internet Kill Switch?

  Peter Suderman

  Presidential power online

• Unfree Checking

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Bank regulation payoff

• Kids at Work

  Jesse Kline

  Child labor laws

• Safe Border Cities

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Placid in El Paso

• Drug Raid Restraint?

  Radley Balko

Soundbites

• Supreme Court Prediction Market

  Damon W. Root

  An interview with FantasySCOTUS.net's Josh Blackman

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Defeating the Deficit

Columns

• Cartoon Truth

  Greg Beato

  Animated recreations may be the next big thing for the news biz.

• Confirmation Theater

  Radley Balko

  Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominees keep the public as ignorant as possible.

• Bono and Buttman

  Jacob Sullum

  If indecency is unconstitutionally vague, why isn’t obscenity?

• Public Employees vs. the Public Will

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Government workers get more powerful as they grow less popular.

• Austerity Agonistes

  Veronique de Rugy

  Why left-wing economists’ warnings against austerity programs are wrong

• Got an Environmental Catastrophe?

  Ronald Bailey

  Blame the government.

Features

• Rogue States

  Peter Suderman

  The revolt against ObamaCare

• You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby

  Brian Doherty

  The Second Amendment finally applies to the states. Now the fight over gun rights really begins.

• The Confrontation

  Nick Gillespie & Drew Carey

  Drew Carey and Nick Gillespie clash with the Cleveland City Council over Reason Saves Cleveland.

Interviews

• The Visionary

  Brian Doherty

  Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand on the future, the environment, libertarianism, and the Merry Pranksters

Culture & Reviews

• Philosophy and Consequences

  Tom Palmer

  Liberty and good public policy are not the same thing.

• Clarence Thomas’ Favorite Anarchist

  Damon W. Root

  The radical anti-statism of Lysander Spooner

• The Men Who Sold the Moon

  Brian Doherty

  Advertising the early space race

• I.M.P.: The Isabel Paterson Story

  Peter Bagge

  Part 2: Success, Power, and Fame!

• Briefly Noted: It’s All in the Game

  Jesse Walker

• Briefly Noted: Speed Reading

  Jacob Sullum

• Briefly Noted: Bureaucratic Lies on Celluloid

  Peter Suderman

• Briefly Noted: Spielberg, Lucas, Rockwell

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Briefly Noted: Help, I’m Being Repressed

  Radley Balko

Artifact

• Skull Bashers

  Jacob Sullum