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December 1987

Reason Magazine, December 1987 cover image
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Cover Story

Quiet Crusade

Seize a church school, ban a prayer meeting, close down a synagogue…zealous bureaucrats are strangling religious liberty.

Virginia Postrel

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The strange campaign of Pete du Pont

Bill Kauffman

Books

The Opening of Americans' Eyes

Loren Lomasky

H.L. Mencken: The Soul Behind the Sass

Thomas W. Hazlett

The Elusive Lincoln

Steven Hayward

Designer Universe

Gregory Benford

Radical Intellectual

Robert Nisbet

Exorcising Demons

Claudia Rosett

Editorials

Winning One for the GOP

Robert Poole

Obituaries

H.R. Gross, R.I.P.

Bill Kauffman

Columns

Spotlight: A Scientist Goes Public

Dale Gieringer

Taxes: Year-End Cliffhanger

Warren Salomon

Life & Liberty: A Platter That Matters

Kyle Rothweiler

Viewpoint: All the News It's a Hit to Print

James Taranto

Citings

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Robert Poole, Lucy Braun, Bill Kauffman, Virginia Postrel, and James Taranto

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Mark Edward Crane

Interview

Interview with Yakov Smirnoff

"What a country!" The Comrade of comics remembers the Department of Jokes, Club Red, and Leonid Brezhnev's greatest line.

Thomas W. Hazlett

50 YEARS OF REASON

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