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August 1983

Reason Magazine, August 1983 cover image
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Cover Story

How to Get Out of the Food Stamp Trap

The food stamp program is one of the government's largest-and probably the most abused-welfare programs. But private efforts point the way out of this costly response to hunger.

David Lips

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Features

The User Fee Illusion

Charging the users of government services instead of the taxpayers sounds like a great reform, but it masks the fundamental issues.

Steve Hanke

Freaked Out by Technology

A student of the '60s takes a new look at what moved the New Left.

Paul Ciotti

Tyranny Takes the Gold

In the name of the Olympics, the state moved in like a storm trooper.

Robert St. Yves

Was It the Free Market That Failed in Chile?

Claudia Rosett

In Celebration of REASON

Eric Marti

Culture & Reviews

Movies

Querelle; Blue Thunder; Parsifal

John Hospers

Theater: The Liz & Dick Show

David Brudnoy

Books

Does Great Prosperity Take Little Rebellions?

Pierre Lemieux

Would Vouchers Destroy Educational Freedom?

Samuel Blumenfeld

On the Nuclear Front

Jack Kirwan

Observer of the Century

Laurence Beilenson

Intolerance and Intervention

Leonard Liggio

Editorials

Healing American Industry

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: Has the Dragon Been Slain?

Tom Bethell

Money: Treacherous Profitability

Steven Beckner

Health & Welfare: New Wave Cooking

Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

Spotlight: Radical Party Man

Guy Verhofstadt

Bill Evers

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Paul Gordon, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

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