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August 1977

Reason magazine, August 1977 cover image
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America's Third Largest Party: Failure!

As minor parties go, the Libertarian Party is a piker.

E. Royce

Features

America's Third Largest Party: Success!

What the Libertarian Party has achieved in only a few years is little short of phenomenal.

Ed Crane

Skeptics

UFOs, Bent Spoons, and Alternate Realities

Can the scientific outlook survive in an increasingly pseudo-scientific age?

Robert Sheaffer

The College That Told Uncle Sam Where To Go

Jim Davidson

Interview

REASON Interview: Milton Friedman

Robert Poole and Mark Frazier

Culture & Reviews

Stanley Kubrick

Star Wars, Annie Hall, Wizards

John Pierce and John Hospers

Books

The Third Industrial Revolution

Robert Prehoda

The Joyless Economy

Marty Zupan

Editorials

Whither the Libertarian Party?

Robert Poole

Columns

Viewpoint: Draft Journalists

Alan Reynolds

Foreign Correspondent: Libertarianism in Italy

Riccardo La Conca

Washington Watch

Alan Bock

Nudity

Spotlight: Terry Parker

Naked freedom

Mark Frazier

Publisher's Notes

Manuel Klausner

Money: Corporations

The limited liability canard

Davis Keeler

Frontlines

Joe Cobb

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Bill Birmingham

57 YEARS OF REASON

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