| Inside Liberty
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| 4 | Letters | Our readers untangle the webs we
weave. |
| 5 | Reflections | We jump up and down
with Tom Cruise, go bionic, kill without guns, dine with amputees, give away
stadiums, pave over Connecticut, cut babies in half, and demand an end to
world poverty. |
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Features |
| 13 | Kelo: Hope for Property
Rights | The Supreme Court's Kelo decision has brought
together property rights advocates and environmentalists to protest.
Timothy Sandefur points them in the right direction. |
| 18 | Just Say "Non" | Stephen Berry
explains why it's a good thing that the European Union is beginning to
disintegrate. Jacques de Guenin argues that a divided Europe is
dangerous. |
| 21 | The Peasant
Principle | Modern peasants aren't necessarily poor or uneducated.
They just refuse to see what's right in front of them. Stephen Cox
explores the ignorance that engulfs us. |
| 27 | Two Years in the Yukon
Wilderness | Aaron Anderson tells why he traded civilization for
aggressive moose, overprotective bears, frozen thermometers, hashish,
and the aurora borealis. |
| 32 | The Necessary
Evil | Some governments are so small that they cannot protect
people's rights. Others are so big that they eradicate the very rights they
were established to protect. Is it possible to create a government that is
just the right size, with just the right amount of power? Mark Skousen
explores a vexing issue. |
| Reviews |
| 35 | Hammer, Sickle,
Action! | Bruce Ramsey tours the Hollywood of the 1940s,
where Stalin was America's best friend, show trials weren't just for show,
and totalitarian life was just peachy. |
| 38 | Anemic
Bloodlust | As Jo Ann Skousen discovers, sometimes an old
vampire just wants to settle down. |
| 40 | Aristocrats of the Gilded
Age | Taking two bullets from an assassin's gun, wrestling him
to the ground before he can blow up the building, and sealing big loan deals
Stephen Cox finds that it's all in a day's work for a "robber
baron." |
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| 43 | Notes on
Contributors | They followed us home. Can we keep
them? |
| 46 | Terra Incognita | The supply of the absurd
still exceeds its demand. |