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October 2003

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St. Martha

Why Martha Stewart should go to heaven and the SEC should go to hell.

Michael McMenamin

Features

Designing Rules

Making room for different tastes

Virginia Postrel

Why the States Are Broke

Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws

Culture & Reviews

Accidental Genius

Is Karl Rove really Bush's brain?

Enough Already

A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation.

Stranger in a Strange Land

The enduring American appeal of existentialism

Subversive Style

Resisting the mullahs with nail polish, rock music, and great novels

Charles Paul Freund

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Is Schadenfreude a Good Thing?

Columns

Denial of Service

The battle over AmeriCorps

Liberty Belle

France's new libertarian youth leader

Bipartistan Coulterism

Who's meaner, conservatives or liberals?

Citings

Sacred Music

Zoning vs. groovy theology

Lawsuit Pre-emption

No Big Mac attacks

Civil Liberties

Static Controls

Copyright and Printer Cartridges

The Chill Is On

Fighting raves, squelching speech

That's the Ticket

Summer of summonses

Civil Liberties

Jury-Rigged

Sidestepping the Constitution

Meat Markets

PETA praises McDonald's

Balance Sheet

Soundbite

Romancing Wired Magazine

25 Years Ago in Reason

DATA: The Poor Get Richer

Letters

Letters

Contributors

Contributors

Artifact

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Artifact

Dirty Secret

Charles Paul Freund

Quotes

Quotes and Source

Cartoons

Everyone's a Winner!

58 YEARS OF REASON

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