Table of Contents
Departments
2 The Third Lesson of Nelson Mandela
With great foreign intervention comes flawed moral reasoning. Matt Welch
6 Contributors
7 Letters and Reaction
Five phony public health scares…
10 Citings Pepper sprayer hits the jackpot; Googling freedom; which movies get pirated?; spy games; economic expansion woes; documentary porn…
52 Reason TV: Harassed for Taking Photos
When cops can't tell a photographer from a terrorist. Paul Detrick
Columns
16 The Best Defense Your Money Can't Buy
Prosecutors disarm defendants by freezing their assets. Jacob Sullum
18 America's Crushing Fiscal Gap It's time to account for future government obligations. Veronique de Rugy
20 The Fable of Hawaiian Frankencorn
The Aloha State's dishonest anti-biotech campaign. Ronald Bailey
70 Kickstarting Utopia
Crowdfunding lets you route around the Man. Greg Beato
Features
22 They Lied
Obamacare's 12 false premises and broken promises. Peter Suderman
30 Consumers Should Drive Medicine
David Goldhill on America's deadly, dysfunctional health care system. Interview by Kmele Foster
36 After Obamacare
The long, tortured quest for a conservative health policy. Peter Suderman
46 Crony Capitalism vs. Market Morality
Finding an ethical lobbying line in a fallen age of corporatism. Timothy P. Carney
Culture & Reviews
54 TV's Deregulated Golden Age
Why so few critics understand what made HBO possible. Glenn GarvinThe HBO Effect, by Dean J. DeFino
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad, by Brett Martin
Briefly Noted
56 Nick Sibilla on the documentary God Loves Uganda
58 Scott Shackford on the video game The Stanley Parable
60 Matthew Feeney on Jesse Bering's Perv
62 Brian Doherty on Paul Pope's Battling Boy
64 Zenon Evans on Billy Collins' Aimless Love
63 The Vanity of American Exceptionalism Charles Murray's latest mixes American history with self-flattery. Richard GambleAmerican Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History, by Charles Murray
65 Conscription Is Not the Answer Either
Andrew Bacevich's powerful critique of U.S. foreign policy backs the wrong remedy. Anthony Gregory
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, by Andrew J. Bacevich
68 Transforming a Tower
An abandoned real estate project becomes a hive of self-organized activity. Jesse Walker
72 When Postage Stamps Are Bad Role Models Nanny vs. nanny. Scott Shackford
Cover Photo: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza