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November 2004

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Who's Getting Your Vote?

Reason's revealing presidential poll.

Peter Bagge, Ronald Bailey, John Perry Barlow, James Bovard, Stewart Brand, Drew Carey, Tim Cavanaugh, Steve Chapman, Brian Doherty, Richard A. Epstein, Charles Paul Freund, Glenn Garvin, Robert George, Nick Gillespie, Mike Godwin, Nat Hentoff, Robert Higgs, Penn Jillette, David Kopel, John McClaughry, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Wendy McElroy, Charles Murray, P.J. O'Rourke, Camille Paglia, Steven Pinker, John Pitney, Robert Poole, Jonathan Rauch, John Rennie, Glenn Reynolds, Louis Rossetto, Julian Sanchez, Jack Shafer, Michael Shermer, RU Sirius, Bradley Smith, Vernon L. Smith, Andrew Sullivan, Jacob Sullum, Jeff Taylor, Eugene Volokh, Jesse Walker, Jude Wanniski, Matt Welch, Robert Anton Wilson and Cathy Young

Features

Mandatory Health Insurance Now!

It will save private medicine -- and spur medical innovation.

Losing Patients

A film questions Canada's nationalized health care.

Meanwhile in Afghanistan

The coming "warlord war" in America's other occupation.

Culture & Reviews

Right-Wingers Redux

Are we a conservative nation? Does it matter?

Cramped Style

How regulators derailed California's most environmentally progressive development.

Michael De Alessi

Free Culture vs. Big Media

Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain.

Burning Man's Piano Mover

Turning ruined instruments into a desert spectacle.

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Electoral Unenthusiasm

Columns

A Swift Boat Kick in the Teeth

How the mainstream media grapple with partisans.

Defending Repression

Why are conservatives trying to rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese internment?

Talk Like an Egyptian

Is Arab popular culture uniformly anti-American?

Charles Paul Freund

Citings

Science & Technology

Build a Better Mouse

Of mice, men, and aging.

The Big O

Erotica in the canon

Charles Paul Freund

Civil Liberties

Razing Objections

Eminent domain curtailed.

Subway Searches

Your baggage, please.

Spamming Voters

Political junk ease

Secession Fever

Live free...or in Vermont

Selling PATRIOT

Propaganda from Ashcroft

Fluid Check

Drug test debunking.

Judge, Jury, and Cop

The Border Patrol's new powers

Minding Your Business

Partnerships in snooping.

Soundbite

Political Spin Doctors

25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

Lost Horizon

Letters

Letters

Contributors

Contributors

Artifact

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Artifact: Stretching Condoms

Charles Paul Freund

Cartoons

In Search Of…An Honest Republican

Quotes

Quotes and Source

58 YEARS OF REASON

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