Table of Contents
Departments
2 The Intolerant State
Sometimes, government is the things centralizers choose for us. Matt Welch
5 Contributors
7 Letters and Reaction
45 enemies of freedom
10 Citings Guantanamo Bay ruling; which states will legalize pot next?; TSA everywhere!; spying oversight; Delta vs. ObamaCare; just say no to college…
60 Reason TV: The Truth About War
Photojournalists capture the brutal consequences of when America attacks. Todd Krainin
Columns
16 Tolerating Pot With a Frown
Why the feds had little choice but to let legalization happen. Jacob Sullum
18 How Much Would War in Syria Cost? Defense budgets are out of control. Adding another war won't help. Veronique de Rugy
22 Watched Cops Are Polite Cops
Requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing. Ronald Bailey
78 Number-Crunching the Courts
It's time to bring data-driven oversight to the nation's halls of justice. Greg Beato
Features
24 The Unstoppable Plastic Gun
Cody Wilson distributed plans for 3D-printable weapons to the world, got shut down by the federal government, and won anyway. Brian Doherty
34 Bitcoin: More than Money
The digital protocol promises to change more than just the future of currency-despite government attempts to rein it in. Jerry Brito
44 The Death of Intrade
Can prediction markets survive government assault? Katherine Mangu-Ward
50 George Will's Libertarian Evolution
The nation's most syndicated columnist talks about political philosophy, drugs, isolationism, optimism, and his political development over four decades in Washington. Interview by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
Culture & Reviews
62 How Poker Became a Crime
The capricious federal crackdown on the Internet version of an all-American game. Jacob Sullum
Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire-and How It All Came Crashing Down, by Ben Mezrich
Briefly Noted
64 Peter Suderman on the TV show Breaking Bad
Briefly Noted (cont.)
66 Katherine Mangu-Ward on David Edmonds' Would You Kill the Fat Man?
68 Brian Doherty on David N. Meyer's The Bee Gees
70 Ronald Bailey on the Phillips Collection's exhibit commemorating the Armory Show
72 Scott Shackford on Slender Man crowdsourced Internet videos
67 Kindly Inquisitors, Revisited Twenty years on, the case for restricting speech in the name of tolerance is weaker than ever. Jonathan Rauch
74 Sex, Drugs, and Sociology
One scholar's deep dive into the black markets of the Big Apple. J.D. Tuccille
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy, by Sudhir Venkatesh
76 The Futility of Digital Censorship
A fictional look at governments' desperate efforts to restrict the flow of information on the Internet. Ramez Naam
80 The Disgusting, Amazing 3D- Printed Ear Scientists use 3D printing, wire, sheep cartilage, and lab rats to create a human ear. Katherine Mangu-Ward
Cover Photo: AP Photo/statesman.com/ Jay Janner