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December 2003
Volume 17,
Number 12

R.W. Bradford
editor & publisher

Stephen Cox
John Hospers
Bruce Ramsey
Jane S. Shaw
senior editors

Brien Bartels
David Boaz
Alan W. Bock
Douglas Casey
Eric D. Dixon
Brian Doherty
David Friedman
J. Orlin Grabbe
Bettina Bien Greaves
Leon T. Hadar
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
Jeff Riggenbach
Scott J. Reid
Ralph R. Reiland
Sheldon Richman
Timothy Sandefur
Sandy Shaw
JoAnn Skousen
Mark Skousen
Tim Slagle
Fred L. Smith Jr.
Martin M. Solomon
Clark Stooksbury
Thomas S. Szasz
Martin Morse Wooster
Leland B. Yeager
contributing editors

Thomas Fuller
Patrick Quealy
Kathleen Bradford
assistant editors

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

Jon Kalb
computer consultant

Jim Switz
associate publisher

Katelyn B. Fuller
editorial intern

  Inside Liberty  

4 LettersPoison pens and love letters: a mixed mailbag.
7 ReflectionsWe go biometric on the Canadians, demand affirmative action for couch potatoes, go drinking with Bill Clinton, get waylaid en route to a tryst, goto hell, crawl inside Saddam's mind, and pierce the veil of ignorance.

Features

11 The Republican Bill ClintonCount R.W. Bradford out of the love-fest for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Plus: Stephen Cox and Ralph Reiland on the elevation of the action hero to political superstar.
15 Limbaugh's DiseaseThank goodness Rush is getting treatment! Thomas Szasz rejoices. Now maybe Limbaugh will be able to make something of himself.
17 Rescuing Free Trade From the Bureaucrats & Special InterestsFred Smith sifts through the ashes of the free trade talks in Cancun.
23 Gun Rights at the Supreme CourtIs the "right to keep and bear arms" meaningless? That's not the Supreme Court's opinion, Dave Kopel reports.
28 The State Department, Senator Fulbright, and MeSometimes paranoids have real (silly) enemies, Richard Kostelanetz discovers.
35 Friedman CounterattacksIn Liberty's August issue, J.C. Lester attacked Jeffrey Friedman's "post-libertarianism." In this issue, Friedman and Ari Armstrong strike back — but do they convince Lester?

Reviews

42 Mass Murder in DeseretWilliam Grigg looks into the history of the Mormon Church at a time when the Latter-day Saints were tensed for Armageddon and Utah was hostile territory for Gentile wagon trains.
47 The Critic and the TyrantsMarcel Reich-Ranicki was an astute literary critic, famously vicious to other authors yet strangely nice to Stalin. Frank Fox reads between his lines.
49 Blues in the Key of zzzHow do you ruin the blues? Easy, says Richard Kostelanetz: smother them in the blather of PBS.
50 The Tax Revolt That WorkedMichael New explores why California's sky-high taxes are not even worse.
53 Notes on ContributorsScoundrels, raconteurs, and muckrackers.
54 Terra IncognitaWhy, God? Why?

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