| Inside Liberty |
| 4 |
Letters | Getting in words, edgewise. |
| 7 |
Reflections | We sing with Bobby McGee, sober
up on the drive home, relocate our business, pull a double shift, beg adults for
money, protect North Dakotan sugar, stake an insurance claim, clean rodent guts
off the carpet, get left at the altar, get kicked out of Cuba, and live to fight
another day. |
|
Features |
| 19 | Freedom
Blossoms in the Desert | With custom-built islands and the world's only seven-star
hotel, Dubai defies conventional wisdom about democracy and the Middle East.
Doug Casey conducts a tour of a new Shanghai. |
| 22 | The
Shifting Sands of the Clean Water Act | The government says cornfields are water,
sunbeams are pollutants, and property developers are felons. Gregory T.
Broderick sorts it all out. |
| 25 | Breeding a Better Tomorrow? | Think Nazi Germany was the only western
society to practice eugenics in the twentieth century? Ralph R. Reiland
exposes an ugly secret. |
| 27 | Standing Up
for the "Heathen Chinee" | When California's politicians met to make racism the law of the
land, only one man spoke out against them. Timothy Sandefur reports on a
forgotten hero. |
| 33 | The Sins of the Grandfathers | Can we atone for the injustice of slavery?
Should we even try? Leland B. Yeager puts reparations under a
microscope. |
| 35 | Pictures of
Myself | Stephen Cox searches the Internet to find his forgotten
past. |
| 40 | It's "Smart Growth," Comrade | Present-day urban planners are using an old
soviet playbook. Randal O'Toole reveals the new face of central
planning. |
| Reviews |
| 43 | The Dismal
Science's Freaky Side? | "Freakonomics" looks at everything from gun control to abortion
to Sumo wrestlers. Robert Formaini takes it to the mat. |
| 45 | Offender Bender | Jo Ann Skousen watches a film that
turns stereotypes — and automobiles — inside out. |
| 46 | America the Secular | Is the United States "One nation, under
God," or "One nation, period"? Thomas Giesberg examines the
issues. |
| 50 | World Poverty
Ended! | Jane S. Shaw douses Jeffrey Sachs with the cold water of
reality. |
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| 49 | Notes on Contributors | Friends, Romans,
countrymen. |
| 55 | Terra Incognita | Barnum's dictum realized,
repeatedly. |
