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February 1985

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Fighting the Soviet Imperialists: The Khmer in Cambodia

Once a peaceful land, Cambodia has suffered a decade of unspeakable horrors. Now, a strange and uneasy alliance of Communists, liberal democrats, and monarch loyalists is struggling to free the Khmer people from their Soviet-backed Vietnamese occupiers.

Jack Wheeler

Features

Competition (Except Where Prohibited by Law)

The antitrust laws don't promote competition-they stifle it. But then, consider their source.

Thomas DiLorenzo

Is There Life After Medicare?

Medicare is dying, and if the politicians would just admit it, we could get on with building a fairer alternative.

John Goodman

Could Hobbes Trounce Hayek?

Freedom for the individual is often thought to mean chaos for society, but exciting new research shows how and why self-interest is served by cooperation.

Joseph P. Martino

Books

Disarming the Prophets of Doom

William Tucker

Dissolving the Nuclear Suicide Pact

Gregory Benford

Beware the Self-Styled Tax Advisor

John Northrup

Can the Soviet Bear Be Contained?

Earl Ravenal

Power Without Principle

Jeff Riggenbach

Juvenile Injustice

Stanton Samenow

Editorials

Doing in the Deficit

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Reason Staff

Viewpoint: Spare Tires Cause Flats!

Clayton Cramer

Taxes: How to Win the Paper War

Timothy Condon

Spotlight: Cross-Examining the Law

Patrick Cox

Life & Liberty: I Have Seen MTV, and It Is Literate

Pamela Regis

Further & More

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Mark Edward Crane

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