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January 1988

Reason magazine, January 1988 cover image
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Invasion of the City Snatchers

When city planners descended on Hollywood to clean up "urban blight," they used every trick in the book to get their way…coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

Sarah Foster

Features

Drawing Dissent

Armed with pen and ink, three cartoonists take aim at the state.

Tim Graham

Interview

Interview: Hernando de Soto

He turned from international business to the black market-to study it. Hernando de Soto talks about the surprises he found among Peru's poor.

John Fund

Books

Radical Left

Meet the New Left, Same as the Old

David Boaz

Our Other Minority

Thomas Sowell

Your Child or 20 Ethiopians?

Eric Mack

Profits in a World Grandma Never Dreamed

Timothy Condon

Book Hints

Lynn Scarlett

Editorials

The Witches of Wall Street

Virginia Postrel

By the Way…

Reason Staff

Don't Weep for Mary Beth

Marty Zupan

Japan

Why Not a Rearmed Japan?

Robert Poole

Columns

Investments: Omens from the Crash

Mark Skousen

Spotlight: A Rich, Rich Book of Love

Bill Kauffman

Life & Liberty: The Ties That Blind

T. Holland

Life & Liberty: What About All Those DRUG STORES?

John Blundell

Viewpoint: Who Really Got Us into the Gulf?

Leonard Liggio

Citings

Trends

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

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Debates

Dear Ed, Dear Jack: A Campaign Debate

Jack Kemp and Edward Crane

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

58 YEARS OF REASON

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