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February 1990

Reason magazine, February 1990 cover image
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Control Yourself

The disturbing consequences of treating addiction as a disease-and every bad habit as an addiction.

Stanton Peele

Features

Invasion of the Bottle Snatchers

How the neoprohibitionists got into your liquor cabinet

Jacob Sullum

Untruth and Consequences

Porn prosecutors have a new book to throw at defendants.

Philip Nobile

Playing for Money

The opponents of gambling aren't putting all their cards on the table.

Reuven Brenner

Books

Peeping Toms and Disaster Groupies

Tom Bethell

The Politics of Legal Rights

Aaron Wildavsky

Lives of the Silicon Saints

Steven Postrel

An Invigorating Brew

Greg Costikyan

The Case for Outrage

Randy Fitzgerald

Brief Review

Steven Hayward

Editorials

Sin and Decadence

Virginia Postrel

Swords into Plowshares

Charles Oliver

Treating Keating

Jacob Sullum

Columns

Magazines: British Quality

Martin Wooster

Movies: Cry, It's a Dry White World

Andrew Clark

Television: Miss Kitty's Litter

Alan Pell Crawford

Drugs: Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum

The Lateral View: Getting Cable

David Brudnoy

Selected Skirmishes: New Soviet Man

Thomas W. Hazlett

Citings

Balance Sheet

Virginia Postrel

Banned in Botswana

Rick Henderson

Lifetime Membership

Reason Staff

A Question of Ethics

Charles Oliver

Just the Fax, Ma'am

Rick Henderson

Seeds of Private Enterprise

Jacob Sullum

Safe Passage

Charles Oliver

Reregulation Blues

Rick Henderson

Checking the Checks

Martin Wooster

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Charles Oliver

57 YEARS OF REASON

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