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October 1985

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Humanities' Ills

You can hardly blame students for shunning the humanities when graduates can't get a job. But the real solution isn't more "required courses."

Max Hocutt

Features

Porn Busters

Radical feminists are turning their backs on the First Amendment in a crusade to clean up America.

Ted Carpenter

Return of the Invisible Hand

Why the market really does work, and why more people are realizing it. An excerpt from An End to Allegiance: Individual Freedom and the New Politics.

Geoffrey Sampson

Marxists: They Love a Man in a Uniform

Marxist regimes have larger military forces-but not for the reason you might think.

James Payne

Books

A Defense Worthy of the Name

Aaron Wildavsky

From Groupthink to Illiteracy

Christopher McDaniel

Bringing Leviathan under Control

James Bennett

Forward to the Future

Joseph P. Martino

Editorials

Do You Want Your Bank Run Like a Utility?

Robert Poole

Columns

Viewpoint: The Price Blackout

Dwight Lee

Investments: Pound on the Rebound

Mark Skousen

Spotlight: Computer Independents

John Dentinger

Life & Liberty: PBS's WAR to End All Wars?

Jim Trotter

Life & Liberty: The Shocking Truth about Walt Disney

Calvin Levy

Further & More

Reason Staff

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Bill Kauffman, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

58 YEARS OF REASON

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