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January 1981

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Data Privacy: What Washington Doesn't Want You to Know

New, unbreakable codes offer people true communications privacy, for the first time. But the government is fighting to keep this amazing technology for itself.

Sylvia Sanders

Features

Caution: Consumer Protection May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Richard McKenzie

Government Medicine: You Want the Good News or the Bad News First?

Llewellyn Rockwell

Reporting on Soviet Dissent: The Forgotten People

Walter Parchomenko

The Decline and Fall of Economic Freedom

How the Supreme Court reversed itself on economic regulation.

Bernard Siegan

Culture & Reviews

Movies

The Blue Lagoon; Ordinary People; The Elephant Man; Kagemusha

John Hospers

Books

What Can Be Said for the Free Market?

John Hospers

The Perils of Futurism

James Dunn

Economics Made Clear

Howard McConnell

Sifting for Gold

Steven Beckner

Book Hints

Christine Dorffi

The Veto Power of the Purse

Christine Dorffi

Editorials

What Kind of Mandate?

Robert Poole

Columns

Editor's Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: The Last Returns

James Davidson

Spotlight: Free-Market Consumer Advocate

Frederick John Schlink

Patrick Cox

Taxes: Living and Loving Under the IRS

Timothy Condon

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole and Christine Dorffi

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Thomas W. Hazlett

58 YEARS OF REASON

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