August 2004
Volume 18,
Number 8 |
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 |
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Inside Liberty
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Letters | Readers first. |
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Reflections | We remember Ray Charles, repudiate Ralph Nader, admire malabushisms, link to lies, discover the Jewish housing conspiracy, take the red pill, cut the blue wire, and lose our right to remain silent. |
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Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy
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Ronald Reagan: A Political Obituary | As Ronald Reagan left office, Murray Rothbard was writing his political obituary: a portrait of a man with a smile on his face and the destruction of liberty in his heart. |
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Credit Where Credit Is Due | Ronald Reagan made mistakes, but he staked a claim for liberty for which advocates of small government should be thankful, writes Lance Lamberton. |
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Ronald Reagan, R.I.H. | As far as Jeff Riggenbach is concerned, Ronald Reagan can rot in hell. |
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Prestige Has Consequences | Ronald Reagan was a statesman of high ideals who showed both friends and enemies of liberty that Americans still hold their freedom dear, says Stephen Cox. |
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A Great Man | Alan Ebenstein tells why he thinks Ronald Reagan was a genuinely great president. |
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"Just Saying No" to Freedom | Ronald Reagan may have won the Cold War, Dale Gieringer observes, but in the War on Drugs, his actions proved disastrous for America. |
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Politics
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Dark Horse on the Third Ballot | Libertarian Party conventions are always peculiar affairs, but this was the strangest yet: the delegates somehow managed to nominate a candidate without knowing his views or knowing about his brushes with the law. R.W. Bradford tells how backroom deals, personal hatreds, and delegate indifference led to this strange outcome. |
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An Interview With the Candidate | Presidential nominee Michael Badnarik talks frankly about his refusal to file tax returns, his arrests for driving without a license, and his quixotic quest for the presidency. |
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Reviews
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America the Exceptional | America is a right-wing nation, and libertarians are an important part of the coalition that makes it that way, Bruce Ramsey discovers. |
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Curse of the Progressives | "Progressive" is an awfully strange word to describe an elitist, authoritarian philosophy that opposes a free and dynamic society, writes Timothy Sandefur. |
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Courtiers in the House of Bush | Alan W. Bock discovers that Bush didn’t take terrorism seriously until it showed up on our doorstep, and how his "advisers" steered him into war. |
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Notes on Contributors | Shock troops in the culture war. |
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Terra Incognita | Not suitable for children under 80. |
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