| Inside Liberty |
| 2 |
Letters | Our readers see through our deceptions. |
| 7 |
Reflections | We get nickeled and dimed,
stand up for Martha Stewart, ride the train to Nowhere, trade our bicycle for
baseball cards, and remember a libertarian original. |
|
Features |
| 19 | Armenian Splendor | Alec Mouhibian explores his roots in
an ancient country where religion is serious, life is rough, and you can feel the
texture of the past. |
| 29 | What is War Good For? | Alan Ebenstein and R.W.
Bradford debate the conquest of Iraq and the War on Terror. |
| 33 | Life in the Death Star | Washington, D.C. is a city of crime, Gene
Healy observes, from street violence in Columbia Heights to the legal plunder
of the Capitol building. And he wouldn't want to live anywhere
else. |
| 37 | God, Man, and
Tyrants | Our divine duty to assassinate tyrants, Dave Kopel
learns, was discovered by a 12th-century bishop. |
| 39 | America's
War on Religion | Andrew W. Jones explores what's at the bottom of the
slippery slope of George Bush's "Faith-Based Initiative," and discovers an ugly
war against people of religion. |
| 41 | Orwell Lives! | Two decades after "1984," George Orwell is
still a breath of intellectual honesty in a time of stifling dogma. Richard
Kostelanetz celebrates Orwell's continuing relevance. |
| Reviews |
| 43 | The Passion
of Mel Gibson | Jo Ann Skousen disocers a tragic flaw in Gibson's
"Passion." |
| 45 | Prospecting
for Anthrax | Bruce Ramsey explores the tell-all books of two men who
were at the frontline in the search for Saddam's weapons. |
| 46 | The Market for Morals | Are social concerns compatible with a free
market? George Squyres examines a book that makes the case.
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| 47 | Love's
Language Lost | Some things, Jo Ann Skousen is convinced, can never be
shared. |
| 49 | Portrait of
Servitude | First a painting, then a novel, now a film. Max Orhai,
looks at the transformation of an Old Master. |
| 50 | Booknotes | Two new bestsellers by libertarians, a history of the Jews, and
a book that makes computer operating systems interesting?!? |
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| 48 | Notes on Contributors | Whence we came. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | It's a weird world out there. Be
careful. |