| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | As always, our readers come first. |
| 7 |
Reflections | We vote for Kucinich, caucus
for Dean, defend Bush II, hack Windows, welcome immigrants, and save the world
one bumper sticker at a time. |
|
Features |
| 21 | Burglar-Friendly
Neighborhoods | Randal O'Toole exposes the dirty little secret of "smart
growth." |
| 23 | The
Procrustean Marriage Bed | When the state gets into the marriage bed, explains William
E. Merritt, nobody can be satisfied. |
| 25 | The Case for Conquering Iraq | Is there one? Alan Ebenstein and
R.W. Bradford thrash it out. |
| 28 | Dumb Clods and Proud of It | When Liberty gives a tiny west Texas town
international attention for its pandemic stupidity, how do locals react? With a
parade, of course. Jimmy T. LaBaume reports — and
analyzes. |
| 31 | Rights During
War | In
1864, the U.S. Army court-martialed an Indiana civilian and sentenced him to
death. Dave Kopel explores what this case says about the Second Amendment
and presidential powers. |
| 33 | A Day at
the Caucuses | R. W. Bradford stands up for Howard Dean, is
complimented on his beard, and discovers just how much democracy there is in
Democracy. |
| 35 | Worth a Forty-Seven Mile Commute | Timothy Sandefur takes
you on a guided tour of his hometown, a place where one can walk among rowdy
bikers, yuppie tourists, elderly churchgoers, and ostrich-walkers — and
celebrate American progress. |
| Reviews |
| 41 | Meet
Philo T. Farnsworth | Big business stole credit for the invention of television from
an idiosyncratic inventor from the Snake River country of Idaho, who got his
inspiration from plowing potato fields. But historians have the last laugh,
writes Miles Fowler. |
| 45 | A Sharp Mind at Work | Leland B. Yeager examines a
libertarian legal scholar's fresh look at the Constitution. |
| 48 | Walking
into Herstory | Sometimes, herstory is to history as astrology is to
astronomy. Consider, with R. W. Bradford, the case of the 19th century
woman who walked across the continent. |
| 49 | The Wealth and Poverty of Nations | There are lots of theories
about why some nations are rich while others are poor. Bruce Ramsey
explores the data. |
| 51 | A Century of Peace? | Is the world becoming gradually less
violent? Martin Morse Wooster examines a historian's argument that the
century of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot was the most peaceful
yet. |
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| 52 | Notes on Contributors | The kinds of people who write this
stuff. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | He who laughs, lasts. |
