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February 2003

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The Battle for Your Brain

Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind?

Features

Wrecking Property Rights

How cities use eminent domain to seize property for private developers.

Jesus Sells

What the Christian culture industry tells us about secular society.

Culture & Reviews

Learning to Love the Bomb

Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous?

Scourge of the Booboisie

Weighing H.L. Mencken's legacy.

Liberating Late Night

Saturday Night Live vs. the censors.

Gone With the Vote

For the GOP in the South, Re-construction isn't quite over.

Wherever Green Is Worn?

Multiculturalism in contemporary Ireland.

Michael Valdez Moses

Big Schlock Candy Mountain

The many meanings of Mount Rushmore.

Charles Paul Freund

Editor's Note

Science & Technology

Editor's Note: Mental Failings

Columns

The Spirit of '73

An absurd nostalgia sweeps the globe.

Liberal Martyrdom in Iran

An academic takes on the ayatollahs.

Charles Paul Freund

Civil Liberties

Consciousness Raising 101

Inside the gender studies classroom.

Citings

Birds Do It

Sex in the classroom

Sara Rimensnyder

Your Papers, Please

New frontiers in decentralization.

Civil Liberties

Great Firewall of China

War on cybercafé society

Capitalists, Unite!

Closing the little red book

Charles Paul Freund

Zoning Speech

Freedom of assembly under fire

Dangerous Assumption

Sex offender registration

Civil Liberties

Guilt Tip

Balance Sheet

Soundbite: Drawing 9/11

Sara Rimensnyder

Source

DATA: All the Presidents' Employees

Letters

Letters

Contributors

Contributors

Artifact

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Artifact

Loot Box

Charles Paul Freund

Quotes

Quotes

Brickbats

Daily Brickbat

Cartoons

When Libertarians Gather…

58 YEARS OF REASON

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