Month: December 2001

Policy

Booze Barriers

Should we also regulate ads for cars, Viagra, and life insurance?

Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Listless

What are this year's "Top Stories" lists measuring?

Sam MacDonald | 12.28.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Enron's 401(k) Calamity

Enron's retirement meltdown is tragic. We don't yet know if it's criminal.

Mike Lynch | 12.27.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Lighten Up, America!

Do fat people belong in public parks?

Jacob Sullum | 12.25.2001 12:00 AM

Culture

Gulf War Syndrome, Round 38

Don't believe the latest hype.

Michael Fumento | 12.24.2001 12:00 AM

Airport Security

Friday Funnies

Chip Bok | 12.21.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Walking the Walk

The hawkish old-timer's guide to kicking some terrorist ass.

Sam MacDonald | 12.21.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Gas Pains

Enron's failure shows a market success

Mike Lynch | 12.20.2001 12:00 AM

Culture

Really Strange Bedfellows II

A final word (for now) on libertarians vs. conservatives

Nick Gillespie | 12.20.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Fatwa on Fat

The Surgeon General snoops into private health, again.

Brian Doherty | 12.19.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Killing a Painkiller

The OxyContin hysteria inflicts pain.

Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Goo-Goo Dolls

The media's post-9/11 wishes for a safer, more regulated world

James Morrow | 12.17.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Therapeutic Cloning: Why Congress Should Butt Out

Jonathan Rauch | 12.15.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Really Strange Bedfellows

My roll in the hay with John Walker

Nick Gillespie | 12.14.2001 12:00 AM

Celebrate Diversity

Peter Bagge | 12.14.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Pandora's Lock Box

The battle over Social Security's 2 percent solution.

Sam MacDonald | 12.14.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

One Toke Over the Line

The feds vs. medical marijuana

Sara Rimensnyder | 12.14.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Uncertified Learning

An ed-school prof says America's teachers need less formal training

Mike Lynch | 12.13.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Khaki Socialism

Will advocates of big government win the rhetorical war?

John Pitney | 12.13.2001 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Right-Wing Biological Dread

The Subhumans are coming! The Subhumans are coming!

Ronald Bailey | 12.12.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Across the Pond Scum

The UK and the EU make John Ashcroft look like a civil libertarian

James Morrow | 12.11.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Trial and Error

The government seems to be making up the rules on military tribunals as it goes along.

Jacob Sullum | 12.11.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Maple Leaf Blows South

War could make 51st state official.

Jeremy Lott | 12.10.2001 12:00 AM

Airport Security

Friday Funnies

Scott Stantis | 12.7.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Death Wish

How rebels punch their own ticket.

Brian Doherty | 12.7.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Trade Promotion Theater

TPA was DOA until some last-minute political performances pushed it through.

Sam MacDonald | 12.7.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Cold Steel

The U.S. steel industry needs massive failure, not another bailout

Mike Lynch | 12.6.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

A Scooter?

The Segway won't be getting us out of our cars.

Brian Doherty | 12.6.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Suicide Blunderers

Terrorists kill selves, blame Jews.

Jeremy Lott | 12.5.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Don't Impede Medical Progress

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.

Virginia Postrel | 12.5.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

"Impurifying our precious bodily fluids"

Fear of fluoridation takes a left turn

Ronald Bailey | 12.5.2001 12:00 AM

Culture

Slippery Standards

The attempt to make the Web child-safe is unfair and doomed to fail

Jacob Sullum | 12.4.2001 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Blacks Against Racial Preferences

An unexpected--and unacknowledged--turn in public opinion.

Shikha Dalmia and Henry Payne | 12.3.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Guarding the Home Front

Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism?

Jerry Berman, Clint Bolick, James Bovard, Alexander Cockburn, Jim Harper, Nat Hentoff, Robert Higgs, David B. Kopel, Declan McCullagh, Roger Pilon, Glenn Reynolds, Harvey Silverglate, Nadine Strossen, and Paul Weyrich | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Ironic Engagement

The Hidden Agenda of the Anti-Ironists

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Liberty's Paradoxes

Must We Surrender Freedoms in Order to Remain Free?

Cathy Young | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

How Radical Islamists Will Take Over the World. Not.

Jonathan Rauch | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Fair Weather Idealists

Peter Bagge | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Post-Scarcity Prophet

Economist Paul Romer on growth, technological change, and an unlimited human future.

Ronald Bailey | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Letters

Reason Staff | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Ye Olde Jazz

Strike down the band

Brian Doherty | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Counter-Surveillance

Don't try this at home

Brian Doherty | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Desert Censorship

Artistic paradise lost?

Brian Doherty | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Free Your Radio

Three liberties we've lost to the FCC.

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Lobotomies, Socialist and Capitalist

A gossipy journey from left to right.

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Culture

Spectrum Shortage?

Governing the ether

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Artifact: Amateur Hour

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2001 12:00 AM