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June 2004
Volume 18,
Number 6

R.W. Bradford
editor & publisher

Patrick Quealy
managing editor

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
Alan Ebenstein
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

Andrew W. Jones
Kathleen Bradford
assistant editors

S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists

John McCullough
editorial intern

  Inside Liberty  

6 LettersOur readers lecture us about original intent, the Victorian economy, liberty tried and triumphant, elephants in the doctor's office, and more.
9 ReflectionsWe risk jail for our bad attitude, make baseball look like America, celebrate the art of political softball, balance the Constitution's checks, fight the war on terror one intelligence failure at a time, pine for Al Sharpton, and remember history through the bottom of a shotglass.

Features

17 The Bush BlunderGeorge Bush believed the American public's anger about 9/11 would let him get away with just about anything in Iraq. It's becoming clear that he was wrong, writes R.W. Bradford.

The plan: get 20,000 small-government activists to move to New Hampshire and downsize the state. Is the Free State Project an ambitious and noble movement by courageous patriots, or just another kooky attempt to build an impossible "free" state?

The Free State Project

21 Freedom in Our LifetimeAlan W. Bock explores whether the plan can work.
23 A Revolution by Other MeansMax Orhai takes a look at the intellectual foundations, the membership, and the goals of the project.
27 Reclaiming the American FrontierIt's time for a new generation of pioneers to claim their heritage as free people, Tim Condon argues, even if that means moving to the Granite State.
29 A Special TimeRichard Kostelanetz discovers that things were different in the 1960s.
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40 Present at the CreationDon Meinshausen recalls the birth of the libertarian movement and all the hell-raising it entailed.

Reviews

47 The Road to FreedomBy all accounts, the ragged army of colonials were no match for Britain's professional army. So how did they prevail? Stephen Cox looks for the explanation.
49 Perfectly NaiveClosing tax "loopholes" for the rich, Mark Skousen says, is no way to help anyone.
51 Goldman LiteYou might suppose that a PBS documentary about an anarchist would be badly done. You'd be right, opines Richard Kostelanetz.
52 Notes on ContributorsContributing to the delinquency of majors.
55 Terra IncognitaThere's no escape.

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