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July 2002
Volume 16,
Number 7

R.W. Bradford
editor & publisher

Stephen Cox
John Hospers
Jane S. Shaw
senior editors

Brien Bartels
David Boaz
Alan Bock
Douglas Casey
Eric D. Dixon
Brian Doherty
David Friedman
J. Orlin Grabbe
Bettina Bien Greaves
Leon T. Hadar
John Haywood
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
Dyanne Petersen
Bruce Ramsey
Jeff Riggenbach
Scott J. Reid
Sheldon Richman
Timothy Sandefur
Sandy Shaw
Tim Slagle
Fred L. Smith Jr.
Martin M. Solomon
Clark Stooksbury
Thomas S. Szasz
Martin Morse Wooster
Leland B. Yeager
contributing editors

Elizabeth Merritt
managing editor

Kathleen Bradford
assistant editor

John Bergstrom
S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists/illustrators

Jon Kalb
computer consultant

Jim Switz
associate publisher

  Inside Liberty  

4 LettersOur readers get the first shot.
9 ReflectionsWe go through airport security with Dionne Warwick, smoke out Saddam, get healed by Mick Jagger, buy guns in Mexico and a new bride on eBay, and add four names to the Axis of Evil.

Features

19 An Unexpected DiscoveryThe Internet changes everything for David Ramsay Steele.
23 Bush's Splendid Little WarWhen the bugler blows reveille, who will stand up for liberty? Clark Stooksbury looks at the horrible cost — and futility — of the War on Terror.
25 The Meaning of Pim FortuynThe media told us that Pim Fortuyn, the politician assassinated just prior to the Dutch election, was a "right- winger." None mentioned that he was an openly gay man who supported social tolerance and equal rights. Stephen Cox wonders, Just what is going on?
27 Barney Fife, the First Amendment, and MeYou'd think that after 213 years, the meaning of "the right of the people to petition the government" would be pretty plain. You'd be wrong, as Ken Prazak discovers.
29 The Chief and His Ethnic BuddiesChief Illiniwek and his braves are safe from the cavalry these days. But are they safe from the warriors of political correctness? Bill Tonso explores the world of ethnic stereotypes.
31 I Get CarjackedT.G. Burke knew the dangers tourists face in Miami, so he got all the permits needed to take his handgun on his trip to south Florida. So where was it when the carjackers attacked?
33 Liberty and Union, Now and ForeverFrom H.L. Mencken to Murray Rothbard, libertarians have sided with the Confederacy. This is a big mistake, Timothy Sandefur explains. It was Lincoln and the Union that were the true defenders of freedom.
39 The Man Who Simply Stated the ObviousP.T. Bauer's moral courage simply to state "the obvious," when so many other people — including many so-called experts — preferred to indulge their own fantasies, stands as a wonderful example for us all, Robert Nelson explains.

Reviews

43 Chronicler of the New DealOne brave journalist stood up against Franklin Roosevelt. Stephen Cox looks at the Garet Garrett's salvos against the New Deal.
47 The Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and EconomicsWhat does economics have to do with happiness? More than you might think, Donald J. Boudreaux discovers.
50 Blacklisted, for Good ReasonHollywood celebrates Dalton Trumbo as a champion of free speech. Ron Capshaw discovers that Trumbo actually favored free speech only for a select few.
52 BooknotesWilliam E. Merritt visits the junkyard of science; Richard Fuerle examines the Lucifer Principle.
53 Notes on ContributorsWho we are and what we do.
55 Terra IncognitaDispatches from the real world.

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