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August/September 1991

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Talking Trash

There's a solution to America's garbage problem, but it isn't what you think.

Virginia Postrel and Lynn Scarlett

Features

Exclusionary Rule

Something's not kosher about Davis-Bacon.

David Bernstein

Reciprocity for Disaster

Mix free-trade rhetoric with mercantilist assumptions. Add subsidized flour, eggs, and milk. Bake in a slow oven.

Brink Lindsey

Books

Invasion of the P.C. Pods

Loren Lomasky

Politics

The Invisible Fist

Craig Collins

Is God a Capitalist?

Paul Heyne

Politics

Dousing the Fire

John A. Barnes

You Can't Go Home Again

Fern Chapman

Politics

Telephone Man

Jerome Ellig

Editorials

Policy Relapse

Virginia Postrel

Pryor Conviction

Jacob Sullum

It's OK to Hate Politics

Rick Henderson

Columns

The Law: Getting Away With Murder

Stanton Peele

Congress: Bad Influence

James Payne

Magazines: Going Global

Martin Wooster

Panama: Free But Frustrated

Michael Konik

Politics

Art: A Few Reservations

James Bowman

Chicago: Free to Laugh

Bryan Miller

Selected Skirmishes: P.C. Left, P.C. Right

Thomas W. Hazlett

Citings

Antonin Scalia

Balance Sheet

Rick Henderson

Getting in Tune

Rick Henderson

Workers' States

Reason Staff

Money Myth

Jacob Sullum

Heated Debate

Charles Oliver

VDT News

Charles Oliver

We're in This Together

Charles Oliver

Letters

Politics

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Charles Oliver

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