Ordering People Around
A Harvard law professor takes a stand against service to the State.
Features
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.
Trimming Your Hedges
Why are so many people eager to swap their "valuable hard assets" for your "lousy paper money"?
Whatever Happened to Human Body Glue?
It saved thousands of lives during the Vietnam war, it can stop massive hemorrhaging in minutes, it offers new hope for ulcer patients-so why isn't it on the market?
The Human Value of Sex
An excerpt from the long-awaited new book, The Psychology of Romantic Love
Even the Government Won't Take It
A frustrated citizen recounts a revealing story about the dollar
How to Perpetuate Poverty
If you want to keep poor people in their place, just do what the welfare system does.
Barring Competition
The California Bar Association would like to see fewer lawyers-and that's supposed to help consumers?
Who Gets to Destroy Alaska?
Overlooked in the struggle between business interests and environmentalists, Alaska's rugged individualists are fighting for survival.
Salvaging Our Cities
Instead of massive urban renewal programs, why not create pockets of prosperity by repealing taxes and regulations?
Radiation Fantasies
Antinuclear activists have sounded the alarm over low-level radiation. A distinguished physicist separates fact from fantasy.
The Tucson Tritium Trials
Forced into bankruptcy by Arizona bureaucrats, invaded by the National Guard, a small Tucson watch-dial factory fell victim to hysteria over radioactivity.
SALT-Free Defense
The SALT treaties commit the United States to "balance-of-terror" weaponry and help to perpetuate interventionism. It's time we re-oriented US policies toward true defense.
Slash Your Phone Bill
Entrepreneurs have stepped into the communications market, offering a service that can cut the cost of long-distance calls.
Private Voting
Instead of voting for politicians, NFIB members vote on issues. They're showing how to get things done, without shifting power to the State.
The Late, Great Center
After many years as the bête noir of the right, the left's leading think tank has fallen on hard times
Hutchins Himself
The "great man" who wanted to institutionalize the "Great Dialogue" is profiled by an erstwhile Center fellow
Peter the Hermit and All the King's Persons
A medieval tale wherein one famous crusader tangles with one familiar bureacuracy
Look What the Stork Brought to Phoenix!
Entrepreneurs are meeting the demand for safe home births.
Gasohol: The 10% Solution
Mixing alcohol and gasoline could help put the DOE out of business
Hell, No, We Won't Go (to the Energy War)
It's another immoral war, but where are all the freedom fighters this time?
Solar Myths and Solar Facts
Solar power is generating a lot of heat, but what the debate needs is a cool-headed look at where solar systems will pay off and where they won't.
Doctors as Instruments of Repression
In the USSR, physicians serve the State, not their patients.
American Inquisition: The FDA's Persecution of Wilhelm Reich
The government's power to pass judgement on scientific investigations creates a gaping loophole in the First Amendment
Another Side of Oscar Wilde
The world remembers him as a poet and playwright-but Oscar Wilde was also something of a libertarian reformer.
Who's Bankrolling the UFW?
A story of fraud and illegality involving Cesar Chavez's union and people in power
Who Should Pay for Nuclear Accidents?
With the Price-Anderson Act, we can't tell whether nuclear power is economically feasible.
The Conceits of the Keynesians
The Keynesian revolution turned careful economic thinking on its head, giving policymakers delusions of grandeur.
If You Liked Watergate, You'll Love Handgun Prohibition
Wire tapping, illegal entry, illegal search and seizure-without them, handgun control is impossible.
The Second Battle of the Redwoods
Conservationists urged expansion of Redwood National Park in order to protect the Tall Trees Grove. But the tall trees were a minor issue in a clash over public versus private ownership of natural resources.
Populism for Power
Cleveland's Dennis Kucinich is supposed to be a "new Urban populist"—but he's really after power to Kucinich, not "power to the people."
The Great Money Hoodwink, II
The further education of President Jimmy Gunn in the mysteries of money and banking.
Islands of Freedom: An Alternative for New Countries
When independence comes to the New Hebrides in 1980, it may provide a rare opportunity to give liberty and private property another chance.
Can't Read, Can't Write, Can't Calculate…But Oh, Can We Relate
How the new education has subverted learning
