December
2005
Volume 19,
Number 12 |
R.W. Bradford
editor &
publisher
Andrew Ferguson
managing editor
Stephen Cox
John Hospers
Bruce Ramsey
Jane
S. Shaw
senior editors Brien Bartels
David Boaz
Alan W. Bock
Douglas Casey
Eric D. Dixon
Brian Doherty
Alan
Ebenstein
David Friedman
Bettina Bien Greaves
Leon T.
Hadar
Gene Healy
Robert Higgs
Bill Kauffman
Dave Kopel
Bart
Kosko
Loren E. Lomasky
Sarah McCarthy
Wendy McElroy
William E. Merritt
Robert H. Nelson
Randal O'Toole
Ross
Overbeek
Durk Pearson
Patrick Quealy
Jeff Riggenbach
Scott
J. Reid
Ralph R. Reiland
Sheldon Richman
Timothy Sandefur
Sandy Shaw
JoAnn Skousen
Mark Skousen
Tim Slagle
Fred L. Smith Jr.
Martin M. Solomon
Clark
Stooksbury
Thomas S. Szasz
Martin Morse Wooster
Leland B. Yeager
contributing
editors
Mark Rand
Kathleen Bradford
assistant editors
S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists
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| Inside Liberty
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| 4 | Letters | The eBay of ideas. |
| 7 | Reflections | We flood our basements,
kick out the homesteaders, fire billionaires into space, wave guns at
tourists, post our mug shots, endorse the Japanese Diet, and misuse a
turkey baster. |
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Features |
| 15 | Do We Need
Government? | If government did only what it can do better than
individuals and private enterprises, how much government would we have
left? Less than you think, answers David Friedman. |
| 23 | The Myth of Peak
Oil | Soon, the shortage of oil will result in virtually everyone
living in harmonious cities, using public transit and their own two feet to get
around — at least, so say "peak oil" theorists. Randal O'Toole
crushes their dreams. |
| 27 | Dark Charity | They'd agreed to donate
their organs, but they hadn't expected to donate so quickly. A short story by
Tamara Wilhite. |
| 30 | Not Yours to
Give | Does a big heart plus respect for private property add up
to a tight fist? It's a question that legislators have faced since the founding
of the republic. The Hon. Davy Crockett provided an answer before
going off to join the revolutionaries at the Alamo. |
| 33 | My Military
Career | With a pregnant girlfriend and the draft board breathing
down his neck, what's a young man to do? Aaron Anderson's solution:
join the band! |
| Reviews |
| 35 | Historians'
Triumphs | What do Nicaraguan filibusters, French trappers, Incan
emperors, and America's Second City have in common? People worthy of
writing their epic histories. Stephen Cox explains. |
| 42 | New Life for Willy
Loman | Arthur Miller's most famous play is rightly reviled for its
pushy Marxism. But a new production in London shows Jo Ann Skousen
that there's room for life in "Death of a Salesman." |
| 44 | Europeans at the
Gates | Artifacts and ziggurats are all we have left of the cultures
that dominated the Americas before 1492. Jane S. Shaw reconstructs
the final days of the Indian Americas. |
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| 41 | Notes on
Contributors | Behind the curtain. |
| 47 | Terra Incognita | At Darwin's
margins. |
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