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March 2002
Volume 16,
Number 3

R.W. Bradford
editor & publisher

Stephen Cox
John Hospers
Jane S. Shaw
senior editors

Brien Bartels
David Boaz
Alan Bock
Douglas Casey
Eric D. Dixon
Brian Doherty
David Friedman
J. Orlin Grabbe
Bettina Bien Greaves
Leon T. Hadar
John Haywood
Gene Healy
Robert Higgs
Bill Kauffman
Dave Kopel
Bart Kosko
Richard Kostelanetz
Loren E. Lomasky
Sarah McCarthy
Wendy McElroy
William E. Merritt
Robert H. Nelson
Randal O'Toole
Ross Overbeek
Durk Pearson
Dyanne Petersen
Bruce Ramsey
Jeff Riggenbach
Scott J. Reid
Sheldon Richman
Timothy Sandefur
Sandy Shaw
Tim Slagle
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Martin M. Solomon
Clark Stooksbury
Thomas S. Szasz
Martin Morse Wooster
Leland B. Yeager
contributing editors

Kathleen Bradford
managing editor

Andrew Chamberlain
Elizabeth Merritt
assistant editors

John Bergstrom
S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists/illustrators

Jon Kalb
Jim Switz
computer consultant

Caroline Evanger
assistant publisher

  Inside Liberty  

4 LettersOur readers take the first shot.
7 ReflectionsWe drop a dime on J.D. Salinger, visit an exploding opera house, learn to live in East Germany, worry about the menace of global climate stability, and explore haute Afghan couture.

Features

23 Enron: Death by Free MarketAndrew Chamberlain shows how the pundits pitching Enron as a "market failure" have the story all wrong.
25 Privitization Is Dead, Long Live Privatizations!These days, Tony Blair acts more like Margaret Thatcher than like a leader of a socialist party. Stephen Berry reports.
27 All the Lies That Are Fit to PrintEveryone "knows" drugs are addictive, ruining the economy, and killing addicts. Jeff Riggenbach explores how people got those ideas.
33 Rothbard on SzaszThomas S. Szasz looks at how Murray Rothbard looked at Thomas S. Szasz.
35 The Trouble With HarryLP presidential candidate Harry Browne finally responds to Liberty's reports and analyses of his campaigns. He doesn't convince R.W. Bradford.
41 Bad Boy of the WPAHow does a good writer get mixed up in a welfare program for writers? Miles Fowler looks for an explanation.

Reviews

47 Lord of the EpicStephen Cox explores the fantastic world of "Lord of the Rings," and discovers good news for Western civilization.
53 Litany of ErrorsWilliam E. Merritt looks at an environmentalist's journey from cataclysm to skepticism.
56 Go Forth and Multiply?Bruce Ramsey tours Pat Buchanan's utopia, where the men are men and the women are barefoot and pregnant.
57 An Unfashionable MindBettina Bien Greaves chronicles the life and times of the "Libertarian of the Century."
61 Principled CriticRon Capshaw explores the ambiguous libertarianism lurking inside 20th-century author Dwight Macdonald.
59 Notes on ContributorsThe cast of usual suspects.
62 Terra IncognitaReality is the opiate of the newspaperman.

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