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November 2002
Volume 16,
Number 12

R.W. Bradford
editor & publisher

Stephen Cox
John Hospers
Jane S. Shaw
senior editors

Brien Bartels
David Boaz
Alan W. Bock
Douglas Casey
Eric D. Dixon
Brian Doherty
David Friedman
J. Orlin Grabbe
Bettina Bien Greaves
Leon T. Hadar
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
Keith Knight
S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists

Jon Kalb
computer consultant

Jim Switz
associate publisher

James Barnett
editorial intern

  Inside Liberty  

4 LettersOur readers set us straight.
7 ReflectionsWe watch our words, ponder reparations, demand reparations for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, celebrate Rosie the Rubblesifter, visit the Twilight Zone, and kick up our heels and dance!

Features

19 On the Road With Ed ThompsonA trip across Wisconsin with a guy who owns a bar sounds like a dream come true to Tim Slagle, even if the guy is running for governor.
23 Independent in VirginiaKen Sturzenacker samples the food on the campaign trail of Virginia's independent Senate candidate.
24 Beyond the R's and D'sIt may be a dull off-year election, observes Chester Alan Arthur, but you wouldn't know it looking at these campaigns.
27 Ms. Coddington Goes to WellingtonDeborah Coddington, a widely-read libertarian journalist, was just elected to the New Zealand Parliament. She had a lot to say in her maiden speech.
29 Science vs the State: The Case of Kennewick ManA Federal District Court has rejected Bill Clinton's attempt to destroy important evidence of early man in America. But, Timothy Sandefur reports, it cannot undo the politically-motivated destruction of an important archeological site.
31 How Fat Are We?Is America's obesity "crisis" the result of fast food? Or of fast and loose manipulation of statistical data? Randal O'Toole weighs the evidence.
35 Shakedown in JohannesburgOstensibly, leaders of all the world's governments came to the World Summit on Sustainable Development to solve global problems. But, Robert H. Nelson discovers, they actually came to put their noses in the feedbag.
37 Regulator, Unbundle ThyselfWhat do you get when you mix a computer genius, a power-lusting trustbuster and a dim-witted Wall Street Journal editorialist? Ted Roberts describes the result.
38 The Party's Over Is it too late to save the Libertarian Party from its own employees? Not if the party's new leadership can help it, reports R.W. Bradford.

Reviews

41 Is the State Dispensable?Kyle Swan tries to escape Leviathan with the help of a good book.
44 The Soul of an Economist Jane S. Shaw examines the decidedly undismal life of a dismal scientist.
46 Literary NeighborhoodsRichard Kostelanetz loves New York enough to review books on two of its most fecund neighborhoods.
48 Prophet of LibertyMartin Morse Wooster outlines the man who kept liberty alive among conservatives.
50 Booknotes
45 Notes on ContributorsThe buck starts here.
54 Terra IncognitaThe truth is out there.

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