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November 1988

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3-D Living

How are we to construct a society so that anyone, no matter what his gifts, can reach the age of 70, look back on his life, and be able to say it has been a happy life, filled with deep and justified satisfactions?

Charles Murray

Features

Crash Course

Could Black Monday happen again?

Alan Reynolds

Chicken Little with a Hypodermic

Mandatory AIDS testing won't keep the sky from falling.

Michael Fumento

Ron Paul

Radical Views, Conservative Style

Ron Paul, Libertarian candidate

Alan Bock

Books

The Good War's Bad Legacy

Robert Higgs

When Safety Becomes Dangerous

Walter Olson

Past Our Prime?

Steven Hayward

Root for the Jailors

David Brin

Brief Review

Lawrence Person

Book Hints

Lynn Scarlett

Editorials

What Do Moms Want?

Lynn Scarlett

FDR's Juvenile Delinquents

Virginia Postrel

Why Vote?

Craig Collins

By the Way…

Reason Staff

Columns

Economics: Budgets Are Stubborn Things

David R. Henderson

On Campus: Where Profits Flunk

John Hood

Life & Liberty: Schiz-Com Star

Jane Hill

Viewpoint: Outspend the Big Spenders

Timothy Condon

Citings

Politics

Balance Sheet

Virginia Postrel

A New Budget Solution

Reason Staff

Bases on the Butcher Block

John Hood

Dopey, Sneezy, Happy, and Solidarity

Krzysztof Ostaszewski

Leftie Super Groups Duke It Out

John Hood

Hope for the Homeless?

Craig Collins

Sizing Up Smaller Classes

John Hood

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

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