Table of Contents
Departments
2 The Prohibitionist Curse
Success softened drug warriors' arguments. Now failure has exposed them. Matt Welch
6 Contributors
7 Letters and Reaction
The unstoppable plastic gun; just say no to college…
10 Citings Guantanamo data ditched; cool new tools; an unconstitutional search; NSA spurs secrecy; Sriracha's spillover effects; football's hidden fees…
46 Reason TV: The Feds vs. Craig Zucker
Regulators pursue a vendetta against the creator of Buckyballs. Jim Epstein
Columns
16 Mass Murder Myths
A prosecutor's report debunks misconceptions about the Sandy Hook massacre. Jacob Sullum
18 Time for a Guaranteed Income? The pros and cons of a welfare idea championed by liberals and libertarians alike. Veronique de Rugy
20 Leave 23andMe Alone
The FDA should stop obstructing consumer-driven genetic testing. Ronald Bailey
62 Online Higher Education Retools
MOOCs aren't dead; they're evolving. Greg Beato
Features
22 Better Medicine
Overcoming 20th-century regulations to allow 21st-century cures. Peter Huber
32 Laboratories for Prosperity
A comprehensive study confirms that free-market principles work outside Washington. John Hood
38 Addicted to Brain Scans
The debate about sex addiction reflects a larger cultural confusion. Stanton Peele
Culture & Reviews
48 'We're Creating Our Own Evolutionary Next Step'
Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto on the digital revolution and the death of the megastate. Interview by Nick Gillespie
Briefly Noted
50 Peter Suderman on the TV show Tremé
Briefly Noted (cont.)
52 Zenon Evans on the Facebook page Libertarian Humor
54 Jesse Walker on Ray Davies' Americana
56 Jess Remington on the documentary Narco Cultura
58 Zenon Evans on Deborah Solomon's American Mirror
54 Greenspan's Blindness The former Fed chief seems oblivious to his role in the housing bubble, the financial crisis, and the recession. Steven HorwitzThe Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting, by Alan Greenspan
56 How Writers Coped Without Copyright
Intellectual property and piracy managed to co-exist in 19th-century America. Tom W. Bell
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain, by Robert Spoo
60 Who Gives a @$%! About Vulgarity?
Society is coarser-and better. Nick Gillespie
64 The Orphaned Rug The genocide that dare not speak its name. Matt Welch
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