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May 1990

Reason magazine, May 1990 cover image
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Field of Dreams

Cities pay a steep price to attract professional sports. Is it worth it?

T. Holland

Features

Zoned Out

How an effort to protect the health and welfare of neighborhoods has become legally enforced segregation.

William Tucker

Civil Asset Forfeiture

United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms

Drug warriors are using an obscure medieval legal doctrine to sweep aside property rights and due process.

Stefan Herpel

Books

Soviet Suicide Plan

Paul Roberts

Crime and Punishment

Jacob Sullum

Gettting Down to Details

William Niskanen

Waiting for the Revolution

Ronald Bailey

Editorials

More Than We Pay For

Virginia Postrel

Beyond the Smokescreen

Jacob Sullum

Poisonous Politics

Charles Oliver

Columns

Art: Postmodern Art Laws

Eric Felten

Antonin Scalia

The Law: Junior Varsity Congress

Rick Henderson

Pretensions: Heroes Without Heydays

Joe Queenan

Planning: Lost on the Oregon Trail

Kelly Ross

Ecology: Political Ooze

Michael Kronman

New York: There Goes the Neighborhood

Michael Konik

Magazines: Covering the Fate of the Earth

Martin Wooster

Selected Skirmishes: How May I Serve You?

Thomas W. Hazlett

Citings

Bayou Book Learnin'

Martin Wooster

Official Perks

Reason Staff

Worse than the Disease

Jacob Sullum

Brewing Trouble

Jacob Sullum

Armey on the March

Martin Wooster

Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls

Charles Oliver

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Charles Oliver

57 YEARS OF REASON

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