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October 1993

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Ambush at Ruby Ridge

How government agents set Randy Weaver up and took his family down

Alan Bock

Features

Politics

Healthy Disagreement

The struggle to offer a politically palatable alternative to Hillarycare

John Hood

Equal Protection

From Bosnia to the Wild West, the simple notion that more weapons mean more violence is shot full of holes.

Daniel Polsby

1993 Reason Foundation Banquet

Reason Staff

The Local Angle

Giving meaning to freedom

Charles Murray

Mind and Matter

The little picture

Virginia Postrel

Books

Dangerously Unbalanced

John McClaughry

Politics

Sins of the Censors

Thomas W. Hazlett

Symbols and Self-Reliance

Mark Martinez

Immaterial World

Brink Lindsey

Policing the Academy II

Charles Rowley

Editorials

Policy

Border War

Virginia Postrel

Obituaries

In Memoriam

Virginia Postrel

Economics

Lesson Not Learned

Rick Henderson

Columns

Politics

A Crazy Man's Utopia: Infiltrators

Todd Seavey

Barbara Boxer

Washington: Base Motives

Carolyn Lochhead

Health Care: Still Waiting

Joanna Miyake and Michael Walker

Economics: George Bush, Egalitarian Hero?

Jonathan Marshall

Politics

Drugs: Weighty Matters

Jacob Sullum

Selected Skirmishes: Kill ALL the Lawyers?

Thomas W. Hazlett

Citings

Balance Sheet

Rick Henderson

Loaded Questions

Jacob Sullum

Winners and Losers

Reason Staff

Taking a Hike

Jacob Kramer

Sweet Dreams

Jacob Kramer

Light Sentence?

Rick Henderson

Covering Your Assets

Konrad Godleske

Letters

Politics

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Charles Oliver

58 YEARS OF REASON

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