| Inside Liberty
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| 4 | Letters | The reader always comes
first. |
| 7 | Reflections | We get beat by the EU, hope the best
duck wins, fail the Archbishop's Test, fight terror with shiny armor, deport a
brazen chess player, get stoned with the man, and regret that the world is
going to hell. |
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Features |
| 19 | The Politics of Government
Spending | Republicans favor fiscal restraint; Democrats advocate
increasing government spending. But what happens when they get in office?
R.W. Bradford examines more than a half century of hard data, and
arrives at some surprising conclusions. |
| 24 | The New
Anti-Semitism | There's a difference between policy disagreements and
pathological race hatred. Merrel Clubb discovers that a lot of media
figures and intellectuals cannot grasp this simple truth. |
| 27 | The Intelligent Person's Guide to
Presidential Politics | R.W. Bradford, Stephen Cox, Sarah McCarthy, and
Douglas Casey present reasons to vote for the goofy crank, the lessers
of two evils — and for no one at all. |
| 31 | Mr. Badnarik Goes to
Colorado | Michael Badnarik made a campaign swing through the
Centennial State, where he talked about his belief that Congress forgot to
make taxes mandatory and his support for a right-wing activist convicted of
threatening a judge, reports Ari Armstrong. |
| 36 | Equality, Stinginess, and
Empire | John Hospers examines philosopher Peter Singer's
imaginary world of peace, plenty, and selflessness, and asks why anyone
would want to live there. |
| 39 | An American
Life | Libertarian writer Rose Wilder Lane relates her life
as a "plump, Middle-Western, Middle-class, middle-aged woman, with
white hair and simple tastes." |
| Reviews |
| 43 | The Taxman Cometh
Clean | Mike Holmes pokes the soft underbelly of the IRS
with a sharp stick. |
| 44 | Pained Twain | Timothy Sandefur
reflects on the life of America's greatest writer — his highs, his lows,
and all the contradictions in between. |
| 47 | Challenging the Blank
Slate | Believing that people are neither good nor evil and are
born without any human nature is pandemic among intellectuals, admits
Leland B. Yeager. But that's no reason to agree with
them. |
| 51 | Upwardly
Mobile | The availability to blacks of servile work as Pullman-car
porters, Bruce Ramsey discovers, was responsible in no small part for
the rise of the black middle class. |
| 52 | Escape from the
Gulag | Bettina Bien Greaves looks at the journey of a man
who refused to die in a Communist hellhole. |
| 53 | Hail Mary, Full of
Smack | Jo Ann Skousen discovers that drug mules are
people, too. |
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| 50 | Notes on
Contributors | All about us. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | Be careful. It's a quagmire
out there. |
