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December 1983

Reason magazine, December 1983 cover image
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Andropov's Orbiting Bombs

The Soviets' outer-space "peace" strategy

James Oberg

Features

Hard Times for Hard Assets

Congress wants to cash in on collectibles-by taxing them at higher rates.

Joe Cobb

Forest Socialism

National forests are socialized forests, and corporate America wants to keep it that way.

Bruce Ramsey

Culture & Reviews

Arts & Letters

John Hospers and David Brudnoy

Books

Mises and Keynes: A 20th-Century Puzzle

Henry Hazlitt

Utopia

Spare Us These High-Tech Utopias!

Jerome Tuccille

Agent of Evil

Ralph Raico

Liberating Electronics

Craig Smith

The Road to Conservative Serfdom

Douglas Rasmussen

Paper Tiger or Iron Bear?

John Collins

Economic Elixir

Richard Wilcke

Dystopia

Doublethinking Our Way to 1984

Virginia Muller

Editorials

Flying Through Hot Air

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Robert Poole

Money: Poised for Inflation?

Steven Beckner

Spotlight: Pressing for Freedom

Patrick Cox

Further & More

Reason Staff

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Paul Gordon, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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