November 2008

Scared Straight

Notes from our nation's awful political spectacles Matt Welch

Follow State Law, Go Directly to Jail

Medical marijuana makes conservatives forget federalism Jacob Sullum
Divided in Nevada

In America's most libertarian state, libertarians don't know how they'll vote David Weigel
Garden Gnome Politics

The age-old battle over landscape expression Greg Beato
Fear of a Unified Government

What happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency? Veronique de Rugy
Every Man a Derrida

A nation on the verge of self-deconstructing Tim Cavanaugh

Bob Barr Talks

The best-known nominee in Libertarian Party history talks to reason about war, drugs, pornography, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ayn Rand. David Weigel
Beyond the Fairness Doctrine

Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC. Jesse Walker
Is There Any Hope For This Man?

Assessments of Barack Obama from planet reason Katherine Mangu-Ward, Virginia Postrel, Brink Lindsey, Richard Epstein, Bruce Bartlett, Jonathan Rauch and Deirdre McCloskey

Between Iraq and a Soft Place

Democrats counter with a kinder, gentler interventionism Jim Henley
A Transformation on Race

Barack Obama's "post-racial" posture reflects a quiet but radical shift in liberal ideas about race in America Michael C. Moynihan
30 Years of Dallas

The TV show that won the Cold War Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
The Republican Civil War

Can the GOP make a comeback by embracing the welfare state? Daniel McCarthy
Idiocracy Now!

Hollywood makes a dumb movie about dumb voters. David Weigel

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