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February 1986

Reason magazine, February 1986 cover image
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REASON Interview: Eldridge Cleaver

He used to plot how to kill Ronald Reagan. Today he worries about how to get blacks off welfare and into the economy. The ex-Black Panther revolutionary talks to REASON.

Lynn Scarlett and Bill Kauffman

Features

Hornswoggled!

How Ma Bell and Chicago Ed conned our grandparents and stuck us with the bill.

Marvin N. Olasky

Foreign Exotica

Revelations from a CIA manual.

Thomas Melia

Japan's Secret

What explains Japan's success in the international marketplace? Hint: "industrial policy" is not the right answer.

Katsuro Sakoh

Books

Getting Transit on the Right Track

Peter Samuel

Foot-Shooting Policy Prescriptions

Benjamin Zycher

Breathes There an Educated Capitalist?

John Nelson

Book Hints

A selective mention of books received for review

Lynn Scarlett

Editorials

Dial-a-Porn Farce

Marty Zupan

Who Should Sacrifice?

Robert Poole

Columns

Up Front: The Long and Winding Road

Lynn Scarlett

Investments: Back to the Roaring Twenties?

Mark Skousen

Spotlight: Zoning Revolutionary

John Dentinger

Life & Liberty: Communist Comedy

Christopher McDaniel

Life & Liberty: Let's Hear It for the Fashion Police

Stephen Barone

Viewpoint: People Sí, Literati No!

Jeff Riggenbach

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Lucy Braun, Bill Kauffman, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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