| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | Our readers take us to task on the Fed, check our vital
statistics, switch their votes, end corporate welfare, and cry to
heaven. |
| 7 |
Reflections | We check the color of Bush's
blood, damn the Yankees, do some monkey business, fall into a quagmire,
deconstruct a corpse, fret over 2008, and snore through the
debates. |
|
Features |
| 18 | Does
Freedom Mean Anarchy? | Government is a necessary evil — or is it? Charles
Murray, David Friedman, David Boaz, and R.W. Bradford debate anarchy
vs. minimal government. |
| 27 | Absence Makes the Hawk Grow Stronger | What do barroom brawls,
Oedipus, and Vietnam have in common? Norman Ball connects the
constellations around our Commander-in-Chief. |
| 29 | Disabling
the Handicapped | Greg Perry points his fingers (all three of them) at a
law that hobbles us all: the Americans with Disabilities Act. |
| 33 | Bronx
Justice | It's only available on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Lauren Shapiro waits for hers. |
| 37 | Crisis of the Soft-Money Plague | Sometimes people just go nuts.
Newspaperman Garet Garrett knew this; he tells the story of a time when
the mob rioted in the streets over the color of money. |
| Reviews |
| 41 | Hellraising
for Dummies | Things haven't got bad enough for us to need a revolution,
Andy von Sonn discovers. But there's plenty to do in the
meantime. |
| 43 | Occidents
Happen | Hatred may not be a family value, but is it a cultural one?
Eric Kenning weighs the evidence. |
| 45 | Coolhunting and Conundra | Jeff Riggenbach explores a future run
by pattern seekers and footageheads. |
| 49 | Ernesto
Goes to Peru | Jo Ann Skousen climbs to Machu Picchu with the man who
devastated Latin America. |
| 50 | After the South Took Gettysburg | The South might have won the
battle. But could a victory at Gettysburg enabled it to win the Civil War?
Lance Lamberton looks at what might have been. |
| 51 | Dwarf-Tossing and Empire | Throwing little people and conquest go
together like bread and butter. Richard Kostelanetz wonders
why. |
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| 47 | Notes on Contributors | The few, the proud, the
strange. |
| 54 | Terra Incognita | Life is real, life is
earnest. |
