Table of Contents
Departments
2 The Death of Obama's 'Noble Lie'
The disastrous ObamaCare rollout unmasks liberalism's paternalistic dishonesty. Matt Welch
8 Contributors
11 Letters and Reaction
The GOP flirts with class warfare…
12 Citings FBI spooks, conservatives labeled; Fourth Amendment eroded; shut it all down; sued for a study; why stadium subsidies always win…
52 Reason TV: Anarchy in Detroit
Lawnmowers, private police, and an autonomous island in the Motor City. Zach Weissmueller
Columns
18 Let Money Talk
The Supreme Court should abandon the dubious distinction between campaign spending and campaign contributions. Jacob Sullum
20 Slouching Toward Bankruptcy The longer Washington puts off Social Security reform, the worse the shock will be. Veronique de Rugy
22 Ugly Climate Models
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can't explain the last 15 years. Ronald Bailey
70 The Benefits of Unregulated Pot
California's "wild west" demonstrates the domesticating power of capitalism. Greg Beato
Features
26 Guilty Until Proven Innocent
How the government encourages kangaroo courts for sex crimes on campus. Cathy Young
36 America's Internal Checkpoints
Refuseniks fight back against feds demanding papers. Wes Kimbell
44 Crowdsourcing Social Problems
Using distributed technology to tackle society's most intractable challenges. William Eggers
Culture & Reviews
54 Glamour and the Art of Persuasion
What Barack Obama has in common with a cellophane candy wrapper. Virginia Postrel
Briefly Noted
56 Peter Suderman on the video game Grand Theft Auto V
Briefly Noted (cont.)
58 Anthony Fisher on Brendan I. Koerner's The Skies Belong to Us
60 Jess Remington on the documentary Pussy Riot
62 Nick Sibilla on the documentary The Act of Killing
64 Katherine Mangu-Ward on Kayleen Knight's King of Bitcoin
60 Your New Robot Overlords Are we heading for a great economic bifurcation? Ronald BaileyAverage Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation, by Tyler Cowen
66 The Aid Debate Is Over
The failure of Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Villages. William Easterly
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, by Nina Munk
68 Rehabilitating an Unusual Libertarian Heroine
Cartoonist Peter Bagge on the life of birth control rights pioneer Margaret Sanger. Interview by Brian Doherty
72 Swiss Sex Boxes The land of precision watches and chocolate wants to facilitate safe, legal sex work. Katherine Mangu-Ward
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