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October 1984

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Telecommuting: Will the Plug Be Pulled?

Workers who "commute" to work by computer would be made outlaws if the forces opposing home work have their way.

David Rubins

Features

Sweet Truth

What do scientists really know about saccharin? And what does it mean for the regulators?

Elizabeth M. Whelan and William R. Havender

Bipartisan Baloney

An industrial policy will mean wise regulation by independent experts? History tells otherwise.

Marvin N. Olasky

Cloaking the State's Dagger

The history of political thought is a history of one euphemism after another to disguise the naked power of the state.

Robert Nisbet

Books

For Separation of Art and State

John Hospers

Compelling Reasons for Cooperation

Eric Mack

The Poverty of Socialism

Mary Mainland

The Whats and Whys of Regulation

Lester Hunt

Public Libraries, Public Good?

Philip E. Fixler, Jr.

Editorials

Con(rail) Games

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Reason Staff

Viewpoint: Mucking Up the Melting Pot

Lynn Scarlett

Taxes: Taxing Tragicomedy

Timothy Condon

Life & Liberty: The Best Within Us

Alexandra York

Life & Liberty: Conservative Villains

David Brudnoy

Further & More

Reason Staff

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Paul Gordon, and Eric Marti

Global Trends

Reason Staff

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

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