| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | We get set straight by readers of conviction. |
| 7 |
Reflections | We are stopped by the Border
Patrol, empty the jails, trash our newspapers, watch our words, spike a rubber
chicken with sodium pentothal, and kill for Pepsi. |
|
Features |
| 19 | Red Team,
Blue Team | American politics is a sport, Clark Stooksbury
discovers, and being absolutely certain of the essential righteousness of your
team simplifies life enormously. |
| 21 | The Conservative Case Against George Bush | Under Bush's "compassionate"
conservatism, the federal government keeps growing bigger and bigger and
trampling more and more civil liberties. K. R. Mudgeon makes the case for
going fishing on Election Day. |
| 23 | Can We "Liberate" Iraq? | As the war in Iraq turns ugly, the debate
between R.W. Bradford and Alan Ebenstein gets down to the nits and
grits. |
| 26 | Orwell's Economics | For George Orwell, capitalism offered only
poverty and exploitation, Robert Formaini discovers, while socialism ran
the risk of turning totalitarian. No wonder Orwell was a
pessimist. |
| 29 | Two Days
on the Hana Coast | The DEA agent came looking for drugs. What he found upset him,
Michael Freitas recounts. |
| 36 | Liberty at Its Nadir | At liberty's darkest hour, a handful of men
and women were laying the foundations of the libertarian renaissance. Leonard
Liggio was there, and tells it like it was, in this interview with John
Blundell. |
| Reviews |
| 43 | How to Be
Poor | Robert Watts Lamon examines what happens when a
left-wing elitist tries to make it as a working stiff. |
| 46 | ¡Globalismo, Sí, Socialismo,
No! | Alan
Ebenstein discovers that global capitalism benefits most the very people its
critics claim it hurts. |
| 47 | My Enemy, My Ally | Anthony Gregory investigates a
startling claim that our Israeli allies knew that 9/11 was coming, but didn't
tell us about it. |
| 49 | The Perversity of Jewish Anti-Capitalism | Jews are known for their
success in the free market, so why do so many embrace socialism? Richard
Kostelanetz explores the conundrum. |
| 51 | Booknotes | JoAnn Skousen, Stephen
Cox, and Alan Bock look at the literary life of Ronald Reagan, the
1892 World's Fair, the trouble with Islam, the decline of English, and
totalitarian art and architecture. |
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| 50 | Notes on Contributors | No, they're not figments of our
imagination. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | Very interesting, but really not all that
surprising. |
