Dissident China
Led by an exiled physician in Queens, the China Spring movement is working to undermine the repressive Beijing regime and light the spark of democracy.
Features
Invasion of the City Snatchers
When city planners descended on Hollywood to clean up "urban blight," they used every trick in the book to get their way…coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Drawing Dissent
Armed with pen and ink, three cartoonists take aim at the state.
Quiet Crusade
Seize a church school, ban a prayer meeting, close down a synagogue…zealous bureaucrats are strangling religious liberty.
Tentatively Bold
The strange campaign of Pete du Pont
Freedom Now I: From Dependency to Dignity
Blacks' self-help efforts could get a big boost from a reoriented civil rights movement, one that turned to demolishing the last of the Jim Crow laws.
Mail Madness
Shocking but true stories of those "sprightly men in gray."
James Buchanan & Co.
How a self-described down-home country boy joined forces with a State Department bureaucrat, changed the face of economics, and even picked up a Nobel prize.
Bittersweet Success
Asian merchants are prospering in America's inner cities-and facing the pent-up frustration of blacks.
The Duke Talks Tall
The dirty little secret behind the Dukakis "miracle" in Massachusetts
Zeroing in on Peace
Reagan's radical offer to scrap American missiles in Europe may not be such a harebrained scheme.
An Examination into the Virtues and Perils of the Lately Proposed Constitution
Constitution Series 1787-1987: Take yourself back to 1787. A group of leading citizens, Federalist and Anti-Federalist, is locked in heated debate. And REASON is there to transcribe it.
Would the Founders Freak?
Constitution Series 1787-1987: They thought America could do best for the cause of liberty by eschewing allies and avoiding distant wars.
Fowl Play
Hungary opened up its economy, but when the chickens came home to roost, Doromby's goose was cooked.
What St. Bernardine's Ass Could Teach the Bishops
The free-market insights of medieval theologians
The Homeless Issue: An Adman's Dream
A little empathy and a lot of PR go a long way in Washington.
Toys Will Be Toys
Our national nannies are worried about Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. But kids survived Mickey Mouse, Batman, and Cookie Monster-all without censorship.
In the Name of Emergency
Constitution Series 1787-1987: Does the Constitution protect rights in times of national crisis? History offers a sobering answer.
Where Are We on the Road to Liberty?
Advocates of freedom are no longer an isolated remnant. But we are still fighting the odds—and the odds include many of us.
Faith of Our Founders
Constitution Series 1787-1987: The Constitution's framers resisted attempts to define America as a Christian nation. The battle goes on.
Real Life Behind China's Changes
They read Time, listen to rock 'n' roll, and shop at private markets. But they live without heat in the winter, put up with bicycles that fall apart, and know that the Cultural Revolution may return…Observations from year in Deng's China.
'Remember the Ladies'
Constitution Series 1787-1987: The Constitution and the evolution of women's rights
The Shock of Taxes
A very expensive lecture for an innocent millionaire: An excerpt from a great novel about America today.
Visions of Man
An excerpt from the new book by a leading political economist
Rock Me With a Steady Roll
Is the flute too exciting? Does the waltz corrupt? Is jazz indecent? And what about Madonna?…Stay tuned for the latest episode of "Ban That Tune"!
America as Utopia
A city upon a hill, a human-divine paradise, a light unto the nations-the American Religion
Schooling for Shillings
How a 19th-century reformer brought the three Rs to the poor.
The New Antiwar Capitalists
Can the probusiness, antiwar voices of the '80s rally a new patriotic peace movement?
How To Move a Nation
Could a chicken farmer and two economists change British history?
Making This Liberty Stuff Come Alive
Constitution Series 1787-1987: The First Amendment should be as important for kids as their first date-or we'll never celebrate our Tricentennial.
"I'm a Free Man Resisting Slavery"
Paul Jacob's fight against the draft
The Mormon Underground Fights Back
First the government persecuted them. Then the Mormon establishment turned against them. But throughout the West, Mormon polygamists, tax rebels, and home schoolers are fighting to follow their conscience.
Dishing Out Competition
Do you like the power your local cable monopoly has? It may be a thing of the past.
South Africa's Only Hope?
An oppressive black dictatorship is not the only alternative to the oppressive apartheid regime. A South African proposes a decentralized system with less government all around.
Birth of a Nation
Constitution Series 1787-1987: The labor that brought forth our Constitution. First in a series in this Bicentennial year.
Inside the DEA
In the murky world of drug enforcement, agents lie, cheat, and steal in the name of the law.
Socialism
Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
Wipe Out!
One tax cut after another has been eaten up by the tax no one will touch.
No More Rich Bully
Don't send troops. Don't send aid. There's a better way to meet the Soviet threat in the Third World.
Uncle Sam Wants Your VCR…
…and your camera, your car, the shirt off your back-all in an insane war on imports.
The French Revolution of 1986
REASON goes behind the scenes.
Berkeley's Radical Slumlords
They work for the government, not for riches. Their tool is rent control; their motive, helping tenants. But they're turning Berkeley into a genteel slum.
Home Sweet School
The education of a home-schooling family.
Mr. Marrou Goes to Juneau
What can a Libertarian do if elected to office? He can at least become "the conscience of the legislature."
Duty, Honor, Country—But No Draft
Fifty-eight thousand brothers and friends and fathers died in Vietnam. I don't want my son sent to some far-off war 15 years from now against his will.
Green Mountain Blues
Didn't Vermont used to be a state of sturdy, freedom-loving Yankees? Yup. Is it still? Nope.
Welcome to the Domino That Didn't Fall
Thailand: Where the people chose prosperity
