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April 1983

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Home Schooling: Up from Underground

Parents who want to teach their kids at home are increasingly winning court battles and organizing self-help networks.

Gerald M. King

Features

Shalt Thou Bear Faceless Witness?

Crime Stoppers programs work, but they raise some troubling issues.

Ted Carpenter

Arabian Nightmare

The government is quietly preparing to go to war to save OPEC.

Jack Douglas

Hostage Factories

The hidden costs of plant closing laws

Richard McKenzie

Losing Ground in Oregon

Despite widespread dissatisfaction with it, the nation's toughest land-use control law keeps surviving challenges.

Kelly Ross

Culture & Reviews

Movies

Sophie's Choice; Forty-Eight Hours

John Hospers

Books

Shaky Foundation, Overbuilt Solution

Steve H. Hanke

Beware the Atari Conservatives

Joe Cobb

Murray Rothbard

Anarchism Argued

Lester Hunt

How Rosy Is the Silver Picture?

Steven Beckner

New Ideas About an Old Ideal

Jack Kirwan

Murky Medicine

Jane Orient

Editorials

Recovery Saboteurs

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: The Pollyanna Prejudice

James Davidson

Health & Welfare: The New Drug Market

Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

Spotlight: Orange Guerrilla

Carl "Skip" Pescosolido

Patrick Cox

Money: Pecuniary Prudence

Steven Beckner

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Paul Gordon, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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