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May 1992

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School Daze

A year visiting the schools that teach tomorrow's teachers reveals a new national curriculum: Forget the pursuit of knowledge. Promote "self-esteem."

Rita Kramer

Features

Control Freaks

How Progressives and efficiency experts abolished school-based management.

Martin Wooster

Year of the Rat

New drug laws are creating a cadre of unreliable and unsavory witnesses.

Cynthia Cotts

Books

Our Hegelian Future

Paul Weaver

Greenhouse Science

David Lips

A Matter of Faith

Charles Oliver

Editorials

Politics Without Answers

Virginia Postrel

'Toons Out

Jacob Sullum

Playing Fair

Charles Oliver

Columns

A Crazy Man's Utopia: Aping Humanity

Todd Seavey

Politics

Business: Top Cats

Deborah Hallberg

AIDS: Put to the Test

Michael Fumento

Suicide

The Socrates Option

Thomas Szasz

Washington: The New Voodoo

Daniel Mitchell

The Environment: Dirty Deal?

Rhona Mahony

Selected Skirmishes: Comrade, Can You Spare a Kopek?

Thomas W. Hazlett

Citings

Balance Sheet

Rick Henderson

Notching a Victory

Rick Henderson

Empty Pockets

Reason Staff

Party On

Charles Oliver

Floor Plan

Rick Henderson

Cornering CAFE

Rick Henderson

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Charles Oliver

58 YEARS OF REASON

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