| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | Our readers take aim. |
| 7 |
Reflections | We defend Martha Stewart,
offend the president, study the prices of chicken parts, celebrate the few, but
proud, defenders of peace in Congress, shop at a socialist bookstore, and get
kicked out of the Libertarian Party. |
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Features |
| 21 | Taking Economics Into the Lab | In 1956, Vernon Smith did
something revolutionary: he checked out economic theory in the lab. In 2002, his
pioneering work was awarded the Nobel Prize. Alan Bock looks at this
extraordinary individualist. |
| 23 | Reports of My
Death | Little things for Stephen Cox do add up when he is faced
with a life-threatening event. |
| 25 | Environmentalism
in Flames | The fires of 2002 burned more than trees. Robert H.
Nelson surveys the damage. |
| 27 | Is Anarchy Possible? | Is the state dispensable, even in theory? Is
anarchy possible? J.C. Lester and Kyle Swan duke it
out. |
| 31 | Deutschland
Unter Alles | Germany made a spectacular recovery after World War II. Now it
is slowly killing itself. Oliver Becker offers a not-quite-yet
postmortem. |
| 35 | Not So Continental | The United Kingdom is not so united,
observes Stephen Berry, especially when it comes to the question of
whether it should join the rest of Europe. |
| 37 | Why Secession Was Wrong | The time has come for all good men to agree
that it was Lincoln's Union that defended and extended freedom in the Civil War,
pleads Timothy Sandefur. |
| 41 | The Use
and Misuse of Cultural Relativism | Relativism is indispensable as an analytical
tool, observes William A. Tonso — and downright dangerous as a
worldview. |
| 43 | A Literary Life and Its Discontents | Richard Kostelanetz
learns the importance of making the right enemies. |
| Reviews |
| 45 | Rediscovering Jacob Bronowski | Timothy Sandefur
rediscovers a forgotten intellectual superhero. |
| 50 | The Hillsdale Mystery | Was the scandalous love tryst-suicide at
this small conservative college really a plot to cover up something worse?
Stephen Cox weighs the evidence. |
| 51 | Living and
Dying in Socialist Britain | John Clark looks at life — and death — in the
hospitals of welfare-state Britain. |
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| 52 | Notes on Contributors | The perps and their lives. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | It's a mad, mad, mad, mad
world. |
