February
2006
Volume 20,
Number 2 |
R.W. Bradford
(1947–2005)
founder
Stephen Cox
editor
Andrew Ferguson
managing editor
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
Bettina Bien Greaves
Leon T.
Hadar
Gene Healy
Robert Higgs
Bill Kauffman
Dave Kopel
Bart
Kosko
Loren E. Lomasky
Sarah McCarthy
Wendy McElroy
William E. Merritt
Robert H. Nelson
Randal O'Toole
Ross
Overbeek
Durk Pearson
Patrick Quealy
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
Mark Rand
Kathleen Bradford
assistant editors
S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists
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| Inside Liberty
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| 4 | Letters | First in our pages, first in our
hearts. |
| 7 | Reflections | We vote down the Patriot
Act, execute Tookie Williams, send 40,000 volts through flu sufferers, spoil
the child, kill time, bail out pension funds, rescue Ayn Rand from Filipino
Marxists, decide not to kill all the lawyers, and enjoy a little bit of good
news. |
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Features |
| 15 | From the Soviet Union to the
European Union | Bulgaria has broken free of one empire, but now it's in an
awful rush to join another. Doug Casey shows Bulgarians a better way
forward. |
| 18 | Why Do Houses Cost So
Much? | Randal O'Toole examines the staggering price tag
on the little place with the picket fence, and finds a danger to the world
economy. |
| 23 | Development by
Democracy | Between fruit trees for the homeless and tunnels for
toads, Davis, Calif. has it all — except votes for affordable housing.
Richard Fields digs at the roots of green-friendly
housing. |
| 25 | The Opiate of Almost Everyone | Strict separation of church
and state has become impossible, argues Robert H. Nelson, because
the state has become a church. |
| 36 | The Politics of Hatred | The Left harps on the
persistence of hate in society, using it to justify speech codes and
hate-crime legislation. But, as Stephen Paul Foster discovers, hate is
too useful for the Left to abandon. |
| Reviews |
| 39 | Weighing the Gilded
Heroes | The "robber barons" were neither angels nor demons, but
you wouldn't know that from most historical accounts of them. Mark
Skousen strikes a balance between the muckrakers and the
saintmakers. |
| 41 | Jargon Good, Oil
Bad | Big business, big oil, big government, corruption,
terrorism, and torture are all present in "Syriana." Jo Ann Skousen
wouldn't add "entertainment" to that list. |
| 42 | Secondhand
Gnostics | When is a lower-case "e" like a part of the female
anatomy? Andrew Ferguson ponders a world in which university
professors are paid to pose such questions, at length. |
| 43 | Booknotes | Swords, guns, and
insurrections. |
| 45 | Medianotes | Lament for a departed
band, and a movie lamenting a departed singer. |
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| 46 | Notes on
Contributors | This month's chart-toppers. |
| 47 | Terra Incognita | Full of sound and fury,
signifying something. |
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