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March 1986

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A Yanqui in Managua

If you don't go on the Potemkin-tour of Nicaragua's projects and smiling peasants, if you talk to ordinary people, pro-and anti-Sandinista, what do you learn about life in Nicaragua? REASON's "revolutionary tourist" reports.

Davis Keeler

Features

All Revved Up and No Place to Go

How the state has ruined a venerable rite of passage.

Ken Livingston

Money Talks with the Stock Cops

Does Pia Zadora know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet? It doesn't matter to the SEC, where securities-law elitism reigns.

Craig Collins

Interview

REASON Interview: Gatsha Buthelezi

Robert Poole

Books

Depotism and Individualism, Hand in Hand

Robert Nisbet

The Maternal State and Justice as Dessert

Randall Dipert

Old-Fashioned Optimism

John Ahrens

Brief Reviews

Robert Poole and Kelly Ross

Editorials

It Wasn't Broke—But It Needed Fixing

Robert Poole

The Neocons' Newest Con

Bill Kauffman

Columns

Up Front: Tales from Two Lands

Eric Marti

Taxes: When the IRS Comes Knocking

Warren Salomon

Spotlight: The Man They Hate at City Hall

Harold Farrow

John Dentinger

Life & Liberty: Getting Back to the Country

Bill Kauffman

Viewpoint: Lessons from Saturn

Scott Hodge

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Lucy Braun, Bill Kauffman, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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