Schooling for Shillings
How a 19th-century reformer brought the three Rs to the poor.
Features
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
Meet Laird Wilcox
Part-time Commie, part-time Klansman, full-time observer of the far-out
How the West Is Watered
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, 'cause the handouts are flowing all day.
Inside the Mind of a Big-Time Spender
Senator Proxmire's evolution from "$35-Billion Bill" to taxpayer's friend
Making Republicanism Cool
The GOP is sporting a new look to attract younger voters. It's nice wrapping, but what's inside the package?
Budget Talk with Tom and Ralph
Jefferson and Emerson could teach us a lot about balancing the books.
Bias on the Bench
Justice is supposed to be blind. But judges are winking at criminals with trendy politics.
JFK's Baby at 25: Alive and Bumbling
The Peace Corps celebrates its silver anniversary, but hold the champagne.
Publish—or Else
A new twist on subverting the First Amendment
Reagan's Smutstompers
The folks who pledged to get government off our backs want to control what you watch on your VCR and read in your bedroom.
God and Woman at Yale
Confessions of an ideological misfit
The Great Twentieth-Century Foreign-Aid Hoax
The Marshall Plan is going down in history as the great savior of a war-devastated Europe. The history books are wrong.
A Yanqui in Managua
If you don't go on the Potemkin-tour of Nicaragua's projects and smiling peasants, if you talk to ordinary people, pro-and anti-Sandinista, what do you learn about life in Nicaragua? REASON's "revolutionary tourist" reports.
All Revved Up and No Place to Go
How the state has ruined a venerable rite of passage.
Money Talks with the Stock Cops
Does Pia Zadora know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet? It doesn't matter to the SEC, where securities-law elitism reigns.
Hornswoggled!
How Ma Bell and Chicago Ed conned our grandparents and stuck us with the bill.
Foreign Exotica
Revelations from a CIA manual.
Japan's Secret
What explains Japan's success in the international marketplace? Hint: "industrial policy" is not the right answer.
Buying Out of Socialism
The Thatcher administration has found a sure-fire way to reduce big government—sell it to the people.
If the Founding Fathers Were Alive Today…
Jefferson, Madison, and Washington gave us our freedom and independence. Our supercomputer brings them back to life-but they don't like what they see.
Brother, Can you Spare a Sack of Money?
Ever pay 50,000 pesos for a candy bar? Bolivians did.
Know Thy Worth
Wife left you? Boss fired you? Don't worry—some bureaucrat thinks you're worth a million bucks.
Gun Control: White Men's Law
Gun control is really people control. And guess which people the power elite wants to control.
Desperately Seeking Solutions
Soul-searching among the Dems has New Deal liberals pitted against "new ideas" pols, with some-dare we hope?-encouraging results.
From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War
In the 1960s, the Mozambicans threw off Portuguese colonialism. Now, guerrillas are fighting to free their country from Soviet imperialism and an insane ruler.
Fear and Loathing of Biotech's Bright Future
Genetic engineering promises wonder drugs, miracle cures, and safe alternatives to deadly pesticides-so why does Jeremy Rifkin want to outlaw designer genes?
