Weapon Assault
The advantage of weak arguments.
Civil Liberties
Mind Alteration: An Interview with Ethan Nadelmann
Drug-policy scholar Ethan Nadelmann on turning people against drug prohibition
Blunder Road
How the Clinton administration aims to patrol the information superhighway.
Politics: Animal Farm, Circa 1994
Stakeholder representation means some interests are more special than others.
Movies: Child's Play, Too
In the '90s, Hollywood won't make movies for the whole family but will do more children's films.
Closing the Net
Will overzealous investigations of computer crime render freedom of the press technologically obsolete?
The Seduction of Planning
Our cities suffer from the belief that only governments can plan grandly and only grand plans work.
Freedom Now I: From Dependency to Dignity
Blacks' self-help efforts could get a big boost from a reoriented civil rights movement, one that turned to demolishing the last of the Jim Crow laws.
Rock Me With a Steady Roll
Is the flute too exciting? Does the waltz corrupt? Is jazz indecent? And what about Madonna?…Stay tuned for the latest episode of "Ban That Tune"!
Gun Control: White Man's Law
Gun control is really people control. And guess which people the power elite wants to control.
Broadcasters in Bondage
Free speech is a fundamental right? Not when it comes to TV and radio broadcasters, it isn't—and an odd coalition of liberals and conservatives want to keep it that way.
"If 1,000 Men Were Not to Pay Their Tax Bills This Year…"
Thoreau's view on civil disobedience-exemplified by his tax resistance-influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. But who influenced Thoreau?
Psychiatric Self-Defense
A new kind of "living will" would protect people from involuntary psychiatric intervention
Interview with Irving Kristol
A leading voice of neo-conservatism explains its intellectual tradition, evaluates the Reagan presidency, and defends public control of morality.
The New Jim Crow Laws
They sound egalitarian and humane, but these racially "neutral" laws have created an American apartheid.
Woman and Fetus: Rights in Conflict?
The author of Defending the Undefendable reaches some unexpected conclusions.
