Print Archives
January 1999
Editor's Notes
Party Poopers
Why the Republicans deserved to lose Virginia Postrel
The Slave and the Intern
Jefferson's hypocrisy--and Clinton's Nick Gillespie
Credit Where It's Due
Is the credit card market insufficiently competitive? Michael W. Lynch
Letters
Columns
Gender War Crimes
Classifying offenses against women as "hate crimes" is a dangerous political game. Cathy Young
Constitutional Challenge
Repealing the 16th Amendment wouldn't kill the income tax. David B. Levenstam
Capital Letters: Coat-Check Time
In which our man in Washington endures Republican victory rituals. Michael W. Lynch
Sluggers Row
How to turn cultural progress--and good, clean fun--into racist calamity Thomas W. Hazlett
Dark Bedfellows
Postmoderns and traditionalists unite against the Enlightenment Walter Olson
Features
The Good Soldier
Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain certainly is a man of honor. But is he a man of principle? Michael W. Lynch
Dense Thinkers
"New Urbanism," the latest fad in urban planning, promises less traffic, better air, and lower taxes. Here's what it really delivers. Randal O'Toole
The Bonds of Life
Society depends on rules. But what sort of rules enliven our world--and what sort stifle it? Virginia Postrel
Culture & Reviews
Hooked on Fantasies
Glenn Garvin
The Advantages of Ownership
John Nye
Truth Believer
Jonathan Rauch
The Libertarian Quartet
Richard Epstein