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September 1979

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Can't Read, Can't Write, Can't Calculate…But Oh, Can We Relate

How the new education has subverted learning

Louis Segesvary

Features

Denationalizing the Mails

Electronics and entrepreneurs challenge the archaic postal monopoly.

Jeff Sampson

Alienation: Was Marx Right?

Marx's view of workers encounters problems in the real world

Tibor Machan

Does God Have a Ph.D.?

A college degree is not everyone's destiny, but there are other ways to become well-educated.

David Norton

Victims of Benevolent Aggression

The author of Looking Out for #1 takes a fresh look at victimless crimes.

Robert Ringer

Culture & Reviews

Movies

John Hospers

Books

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, New Directions in Austrian Economics

Arthur M. Diamond Jr.

The First World and the Third World

Alvin Rabushka

Harvard Hates America

J. King

Science Fiction

The Genesis Machine

Norman Berls

Editorials

Energy and Power

Robert Poole

Columns

Editor's Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: National Review and the Pro-Government Coalition

Murray Rothbard

Taxes: Your First/Best Investment

Timothy Condon

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Thomas W. Hazlett

57 YEARS OF REASON

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