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December 1988

Reason magazine, December 1988 cover image
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Private Cures for Postal Ills

A government bypass is the remedy. The argument now is how to prepare the patient for surgery.

Doug Bandow

Features

Yes, Postmaster General

A private-sector superstar comes to the Postal Service with all the right instincts, but his managers are well-entrenched, with all the wrong incentives.

John Crutcher

Beauty and the Beast

A hair-raising tale of combs, curlers, and Regulation 09.22.01.11B

Howard Baetjer Jr.

Books

Witness to a Revolution?

David R. Henderson

The Moral Glue

Thomas Sowell

The Saving Remnant

Anne Wortham

Happiness Is…

Walter Williams

Hustler or Hero?

Michael McMenamin

Politics

Missing the '60s

Lynn Scarlett and Jim Trotter

Editorials

Environmentalism

Apocalypse, No

Virginia Postrel

It's All Public TV

Craig Collins

By the Way

Reason Staff

Columns

Suburbia: Beady-Eyed Deck Checkers

Frank Wilner

Constitutions: Freedom from Communism?

Alvin Rabushka

Life & Liberty: Television Gets Real

Jane Hill

Citings

Balance Sheet

Virginia Postrel

Fear of Flying

Reason Staff

To Err Is…

Craig Collins

Wronging Rights

John Hood

Free Trade: It Takes Two

Charles Oliver

Scores Only a Golfer Could Love

John Hood

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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