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February 1991

Reason magazine, February 1991 cover image
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No Secrets

If you get arrested, you have the right to remain silent. But if you get sued, they have ways of making you talk.

Walter Olson

Features

Smoke and Mirrors

Antismoking activists say they're neither elitists nor paternalists. They're fooling themselves.

Jacob Sullum

What's Up to Doc?

From emergency surgery to addiction therapy, courts are letting "the experts," rather than parents, decide what treatment to give kids.

Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky

Books

Cloaking Device

Juliana Geran Pilon

Japanese Agent Man

Brink Lindsey

Carolina in My Mind

Rick Henderson

Weird Science

Charles Oliver

Static Interference

Thomas W. Hazlett

Brief Review

Greg Rehmke

Editorials

What's Fair in War?

Virginia Postrel

Trading Places

Rick Henderson

Milking Milken

Jacob Sullum

Columns

Magazines: Looking Left

Martin Wooster

Romania: Black Books

Steven Carlson

Foreign Aid: Planning for Capitalism

Melanie Tammen

Farms: Easy Money

Blake Hurst

Los Angeles: The Rebirth of Watts

Raoul Contreras

Selected Skirmishes: Bush, Buckwheat, and the Budget

Thomas W. Hazlett

Citings

Balance Sheet

Rick Henderson

Money for Nothing

Reason Staff

Indecent Exposure

Jacob Sullum

Pressing Freedom

Rick Henderson

Wiseguys

Charles Oliver

Pot Shots

Jacob Sullum

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Charles Oliver

57 YEARS OF REASON

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