| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | Peer review in action. |
| 9 |
Reflections | We nuke the puppies, make new
friends in Kazakhstan, invest in the stock market, explore our feelings about
women's intuition, play the Great Game, and put a lock washer in a parking
meter. |
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Features |
| 19 | Hayek and Psychiatry | Friedrich Hayek was a brilliant social
thinker, and his ideas have consequences that even he didn't recognize. Thomas
S. Szasz shows how, if we followed Hayek's prescriptions, psychiatry as we
know it would disappear. |
| 21 | Behind the Vestry Door | It is not enough simply to blame the scandals in the Roman Catholic Church on a few abusive priests and a church that
tolerates them. Sarah McCarthy advises the church to change its
ways. |
| 25 | How Safe Is
Too Safe? | Despite government's best efforts, airline travel is not yet
100% safe from terrorists. But it is already too safe, argues William
Merritt. |
| 27 | The Myth of "Deadbeat Dads" | Stephen Baskerville exposes
special-interest groups that demonize and then criminalize divorced fathers into
"deadbeat dads." |
| 33 | I Flacked
the Sheriff | A maverick Colorado sheriff goes to Washington, gunning for
anti-drug laws. Ari Armstrong goes along to help. |
| 35 | The "Genius" Behind the Genius Grants | It ain't pretty when a "naive
liberal" puts his spin on communist oppression, as Barry Loberfeld
discovers. |
| Reviews |
| 39 | The Lives
of H.L. Mencken | To understand the life of H.L. Mencken, one must understand
that he lead five lives and tried to keep them separate, argues R.W.
Bradford. Sometimes, he didn't succeed. |
| 43 | Property Rights on Razor's Edge | The renewed vitality of
property rights after Lucas rests on a single Supreme Court vote. Bruce
Ramsey looks at a pre-emptive strike against the legal attack on property
rights. |
| 46 | D-ru-ids,
Mongolia, and the Origin of the Atomic Bomb | Was Franklin Roosevelt on a quest for the
Holy Grail? Why did he send a Russian agent to get him "grasses" in Outer
Mongolia? Is the atom bomb a sign of Christ's return? Stephen Cox quests
for answers. |
| 49 | Booknotes | Clark Stooksbury ponders whether Dr. Seuss was a racist
warmonger, and meanwhile gets ready for life in the country; Karen Lewis
examines why the Glory of Empire made so many British liberals act so . . .
illiberal. |
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| 50 | Notes on Contributors | Who, what, and where. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | Reality bites back. |
