Print Archives
February 1997
Editor's Note
Priced to Move
The CPI can't keep up with a dynamic economy. Virginia Postrel
Columns
Contract Killers
Selling out privatization at the INS John J. Miller
Judge Gags Rudy and Rupert
First Amendment mugged! Michael McMenamin
Advertising and Decadence
It's not all downhill for political ads. Brian Doherty
Class Warfare
It's soccer moms vs. poor kids--in a rout. Thomas W. Hazlett
Features
Assimilation, American Style
Universalist ideals, capitalism, a plethora of associations, and a love of progress are the secret to interethnic identity. Peter D. Salins
The Many Faces of Newt Gingrich
A House speaker divided John J. Pitney, Jr.
Prescription: Drugs
When California and Arizona overwhelmingly passed initiatives allowing the medical use of marijuana, drug warriors were apoplectic. What do these measures mean? Nick Gillespie
Happy Warrior
Republican agitator Grover Norquist on building a "leave-us-alone coalition" Rick Henderson and Steven Hayward
Dances With Myths
Half-truths about American Indians' environmental ethic obscure the rational ways in which they have lived with and shaped the natural world. Terry L. Anderson
Culture & Reviews
A Matter of Respect
James D. Wright
Who Should Pay for Science?
John Staddon
Managing Trade's History
John Nye
Divided We Stand
James M. Buchanan