| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | Our readers stand up for the Libertarian Party, sit down for
fatty food, say no (and yes) to war, and buy the farm. |
| 5 |
Reflections | We live the posh life in Kabul,
seek independence for the Big Apple, bash SUVs, bemoan the passing of Al Gore,
answer the call of the North, cheer for Al Sharpton, and grouse about the decline
of the Republic. |
|
Features |
| 19 | Suppose the Globe Is Warming . . .
| If Global
Warming means longer growing seasons, milder winters, and greater prosperity, why
are so many people willing to go to such extremes to fight it? Robert H.
Nelson reports from the front in the world's latest War of
Religion. |
| 21 | John Rawls
and the Veil of Incoherence | The 20th century's most influential
political thinker just died Jan Narveson performs an
autopsy. |
| 23 | Liberty and Union Don't Go Together | Joseph Sobran challenges
the argument for America the Indivisible and wonders, if the Constitution
promised to bind the states forever, why would any have decided to
join? |
| 25 | A Year at FEE | Mark Skousen recounts his
all-too-short year as president of the Foundation for Economic Education, and
wonders whether the sun is setting on America's oldest freedom
organization. |
| 27 | The Romance of the New Religions | Stephen Cox is your
guide. |
| 31 | Guns in the Dock | The courts weren't always so careless about
the Second Amendment, Dave Kopel reports. |
| 33 | The
Coercive Anarchism of Noam Chomsky | Barry Loberfeld discovers that the
world famous philosopher's vaunted "anarchism" ultimately amounts to its very
opposite. |
| 37 | A Model for
Libertarian Activists | Jacques de Guenin tells how a small group of dedicated
people convinced the public that taxes should be cut, trade freed up, and
government reduced all within a decade. |
| Reviews |
| 41 | A
Politically Correct H.L. Mencken | H.L. Mencken was undoubtedly America's most
influential literary and social critic, and arguably America's most influential
libertarian. But, R.W. Bradford wonders, was he also an anti-Semite, as a
new biography claims? |
| 46 | Freedom,
Not Protection | Bettina Bien Greaves discovers a new breed of feminists
who seek simple freedom and eschew the quotas, exemptions, and special
protections sought by old-line feminists. |
| 49 | The Dialectics of Liberty | Ari Armstrong looks at dialectical
libertarianism. |
| 52 | Authenticity and the Art of the
Documentary | More often than not, as Richard Kostelanetz observes,
documentaries don't record their subjects they record their makers'
opinions. |
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| 51 | Notes on Contributors | Your faithful
correspondents. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | News you can't use. |