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March 1982

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Making Good(s) Behind Bars

Entrepreneurship threatened to rehabilitate Maine's prisoners—but the authorities couldn't handle it.

Jeffrey Shedd

Features

Facing Foreign Realities

A distinguished journalist calls for a reassessment of Reagan's foreign policy.

Felix Morley

Vanishing Farmland

Are we paving over the breadbasket?

Kelly Ross

Privatize Those Lands!

A message to Sagebrush Rebels

Steve H. Hanke

Interview

Interview with Paul Kurtz

What is secular humanism? Why is the Moral Majority up-in-arms over it? What tactics do they resort to to counter it? The leading defender of secular humanism speaks his mind.

Tibor Machan and Lansing Pollock

Culture & Reviews

Movies

John Hospers

Books

Dethroning the Monarchs of Racism

William Allen

The Soviet Space Horror Show

G. Stine

Worldwide Woes of Rent Control

Peter Salins

From Talking Toys to Talking Tools

Jack Shafer

Uneconomic Philosophizing

Arthur M. Diamond Jr.

Good Advice Strung Out

Jack Kirwan

Editorials

Red Ink

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: Do Deficits Matter?

Murray Rothbard

Taxes: Tips for Taxing Times

Timothy Condon

Health & Welfare: Sleep and Your Health

Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

Libertarian History/Philosophy

Spotlight: Tender of the Tradition

Patrick Cox

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

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