Features
Dial D for Deregulation
The telephone monopoly is coming apart-and just about everyone stands to benefit.
Why the Conservatives Will Fail, If They Fail
A reply to George Will
The Plot to Take Over America's Railroads
There are powerful bureaucrats in Washington. There are master plans mapping out which railroads will live and die. There are innovators being kept from modernizing rail service. This is the saga of the Federal Railroad Administration.
Concealed Costs/Bloated Benefits
Your federal tax dollars at work
Supreme Court Overturns Saccharin Ban
FDA must bear burden of proof
Who Can Cross Our Borders?
A new solution to the immigration problem
Queensland Quops
Australia's quasi cops show how quietly a police state comes
Soup in Your Lap
Why can't you get good service?
Bearing Witness: Should You Be Forced?
The Founding Fathers wanted to look out for accused criminals, so they provided for compulsory testimony. But that poses a dilemma for individual rights.
Data Privacy: What Washington Doesn't Want You to Know
New, unbreakable codes offer people true communications privacy, for the first time. But the government is fighting to keep this amazing technology for itself.
The Decline and Fall of Economic Freedom
How the Supreme Court reversed itself on economic regulation.
H.L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Mencken's birth REASON reprints a classic essay.
"Constraints on Government"
Mont Pelerin Society-1980
Self-Help Schooling in South Boston
Why did these blue-collar parents follow rich folks and the counterculture along the road to private schooling? And how did they pull it off?
Barry Commoner: The Sunshine Candidate
Does bad science make good politics?
How Right Is Reagan?
The GOP platform is a curious mixture of pragmatism and purity.
Ed Clark: Another Kind of Candidate
The Libertarian Party looks like it's here to stay.
Dumping the Garbage Monopoly
"You can't have free competition in trash collection," they say. But the people of Wichita decided to give it a try.
Housing Tangled in Red Tape
It sounded good: government would help make houses safe with detailed building codes. But today's codes extract a very high price. Isn't there a better way to have safe houses?
How Far Can Thatcher Go?
Undoing decades of British socialism isn't easy
A Few Kind Words for Warren G. Harding
Forget what you read in your history books about the twenty-ninth president of the United States.
Everything Your Child Always Wanted to Know
…about school, that is, but was afraid to ask. A psychologist and parent has some answers.
Wun Niu Fela Kuntri
A different kind of liberation movement emerges in the New Hebrides
Antitrust: Free-Market Dilemma
A distinguished British scholar questions an American institution
Toads vs. Roads
The Bureau of Land Management is making plans for the California desert. The outcome will affect land use across the nation.
The Two Faces of Capitalism
The counterculture may know more about capitalism than they think they know.
Ordering People Around
A Harvard law professor takes a stand against service to the State.
Who Caused Three Mile Island?
After five major investigations, the real reason for the Three Mile Island accident has remained a mystery. REASON's reporter has found the missing link.
Naderizing the Giant Corporation
A close-up look at the people and ideas behind the push for corporate democracy.
The Registration Placebo
America's real defense needs will not be met by draft registration.
How Do You Know Your Doctor's Not a Quack?
Present medical licensing is a sham. A doctor points the way to better protection for medical consumers.
Conning Journalists for Psychiatric Profit
Every day, journalists who think they're being objective are parroting others' value judgments.
Alternative Transit
While the feds continue to spend billions on money-losing subways and bus lines, these new forms of transit are meeting people's real needs-and doing it without subsidy.
Sic Transit Transbus
Uncle Sam builds the bus of the future-a $28 million fiasco.
Olympics…in Any Weather?
A Soviet dissident's case for boycotting Moscow.
Is Any Radiation Too Much Radiation?
More thoughts on the question of thresholds
Why "Economic Man" Is Not Enough
If you defend liberty the way most economists do, you've conceded the issue to the socialists
Oil and Gas Better Than Gold
All that earns does not glitter-like oil and gas. The investor can try oil stocks, an oil income program, or public drilling programs.
A New Way to Forecast the Inflation Cycle
Forget about those new money-supply figures. You have to look at domestic credit expansion if you want to understand the monetary future.
Make the IRS Your Partner
How the average person can use real estate to shelter his income from taxes.
Stock Market Returns
Common stocks represent real assets as much as do oil, metals, and real estate-and the data suggest they're a good buy today.
