| Inside Liberty |
| 4 | Letters | Our readers take arms. |
| 9 | Reflections | We pimp out port-a-potties, water down Bonfire Night,
send assassins through time, diagnose Foley's folly, twist workers' arms
(for their own good, of course), uncover the most rockin' conspiracy
ever, and brace ourselves for the 110th Congress.
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Features |
| 19 | Our Allies, the Conservatives | On his way to the polls, Bruce
Ramsey refuses to abandon the "leave us alone" coalition.
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| 23 | The End in Iraq | As President Bush sneaks in and out of the Middle
East, Jon Harrison wonders what happened to the hero's welcome that
the neocons predicted.
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| 26 | The New Civic Religion | On the first anniversary of his death,
we revisit R.W. Bradford's timeless commentary on the modern-day
sacrament of voting. Bruce Ramsey shares his memories of Bill Bradford
as a colleague and as a friend.
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| 33 | Franklin and His Critics | Mark Skousen pores over Benjamin
Franklin's papers, and finds in him one of America's greatest champions
of liberty — despite what many libertarians think.
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| 38 | I Take the Bar | Three days of questions and a 61% rate of failure:
Bart Kosko sits down to one of the most intimidating exams in the world.
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| Reviews |
| 41 | God and Mr. Mencken | Though H.L. Mencken is often
remembered for his irreverent soundbites, he was more than a simple
blasphemer. Garin K. Hovannisian examines the great journalist's
tempestuous relationship with religion.
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| 45 | Out of the Past | Eric Kenning longs for the days of tough-talking
loners and dangerous dames, when people didn't apologize for being
themselves.
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| 46 | We Ain't All Alike | Jo Ann Skousen re-views the individualism and
sadism of "From Here to Eternity": it's more than just sex on the beach.
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| 48 | George Washington, "Infidel" | Washington never took
communion and declined to invite priests to his deathbed. But if he
wasn't a Christian, asks Jonathan W. Rowe, then what was he?
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| 52 | Lost Classic | Gary Jason lifts a Cuban epic from its early and
undeserved obscurity.
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| 50 | Notes on Contributors | The people in the neighborhood. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | Beware, beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! |
