| Inside Liberty |
| 2 |
Letters | But what do you really think? |
| 5 |
Reflections | We commit treason, get a lap
dance, plan a murder, find freedom in Armenia, and get old and
fat. |
|
Features |
| 15 | Liberty
vs. Left and Right | The time has come, R.W. Bradford argues, for
libertarians to divorce themselves from the Right, and prepare to make strategic
alliances with the Left. |
| 17 | Showdown in the Desert | What does a constitutional amendment amend?
In Nevada, Timothy Sandefur discovers that the Supreme Court has ruled
amendments surely don't amend the constitution. |
| 20 | Breaking the Cycle of Tax and Spend | A quarter century ago,
California voters enacted the nation's first tax limitation. But California
politicians figured out how to get around the measure. Happily, as Michael
New explains, voters in Colorado found better ways to limit taxes and
spending. |
| 23 | All Guns to the People | Americans have always been allowed to own
weapons more powerful than the Army's, notes William
Tonso. |
| 27 | The
Conquest of the United States by Spain | Iraq was not America's first experiment with
imperialism. The consequences of our first imperial venture were not pretty.
William Graham Sumner explains. |
| 39 | Mussels and Eagles and Gobies, Oh My! | It's hard being an
environmentalist, William Merritt learns, when the environment won't play
fair. |
| 41 | Extremism in Defense of Liberty | Aeon Skoble attacks
Bruce Ramsey's spirited defense of moderate liberty. Ramsey still wants to
drink his beer one at a time. |
| 45 | A Woman's Prerogative | Jane Roe (of Roe v. Wade) changed her mind: abortion is
wrong. What's wrong with that? Plenty, says James
Lambert. |
| 47 | A
Smuggler's Life for Me | Stephen Browne runs away and joins the
smugglers. |
| 49 | The Truth vs. the
truth | Can the "truths" that institutions have historically engineered
to suit their needs survive the Internet? Stephen Cox explores the
question. |
| 57 | A Jew Talks
With Himmler | In the final days of World War II, Frank Fox learns, a
brave Jew met the most infamous Jew-killer face-to-face. |
| 61 | Ideohabits | We all have them. Colleen Coleman
faces hers down. |
| Reviews |
| 63 | The
Virtue of Provincialism | What made America work? The Founders had the best of both
idealism and practicality, says Timothy Sandefur. |
| 65 | A Warrior's Tale | Clark Stooksbury discovers an honest
account of the life of a Marine sniper in Gulf War I. |
| 67 | White Bread Text | Who are school textbooks written for —
children, or special interests? Stuart Williams lays bare the sorry state
of these texts. |
| 69 | Two Centuries
of Adam Smith | In 1776, Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" introduced the world
to liberty, but you'd never know it from recent editions of Smith's seminal work.
Mark Skousen surveys the damage. |
| 70 | A New Light | An important new musical opens in Seattle.
Katelyn B. Fuller is there. |
| 71 | Father Flicks | Jo Ann Skousen surveys the cinematic
landscape for works dealing with the complex relationship between fathers and
their children. |
| 73 | Booknotes |
| 75 |
Notes on
Contributors |
| 78 |
Terra
Incognita |
