| Inside Liberty |
| 4 | Letters | Our readers share and share alike. |
| 7 | Reflections | We donate blood, pop pills, circulate hundreds, silence
spring, fling candy in costume, boost the wedding industry, take
pointers from Sweden, follow French fauna, avoid Irish otters, revisit
Soviet economics, and mourn the loss of an intellectual giant.
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Features |
| 17 | Election 2006: The Blue Tide | Sound and fury, signifying —
something. Bruce Ramsey, assisted by Liberty’s editors and contributors,
reports on our national sport.
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| 35 | Election in Miniature | The glories of American democracy,
reproduced on the campus level: Garin K. Hovannisian fights in the war,
and reports from it.
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| 37 | Fight Terrorism: Legalize Heroin | Poppy fields mean big profits
for enemies of the United States. Scott McPherson wants to know why
we shouldn’t be the ones to benefit from Afghanistan’s most lucrative
crop.
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| 40 | Tattered Groves of Academe | Jane Shaw finds the problem with
colleges in the United States isn’t their lack of success — it’s the fact that
they’ve altogether forgotten what success really means.
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| 43 | Nukes and NIMBY | Nuclear reactors are safe, green, and more
than capable of keeping our economy running. Trouble is, nobody
wants one next door. Gary Jason knows how to change their minds.
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| 46 | Digital Welfare | Incompetence, greed, and Mafia schemes: Vince Vasquez examines the strange history of your telephone.
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| Reviews |
| 51 | Bringing the Boys Back Home | Clint Eastwood had to go to
Iceland to replicate Iwo Jima. Jo Ann Skousen follows him there.
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| 53 | The Hour Is Late | Andre Zantonavitch reads Europe’s future on a
Swedish Muslim’s T-shirt: “2030 — Then we take over.”
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| 54 | Fame and Flackery | There’s plenty of both in Andy Warhol’s wake.
Richard Kostelanetz sorts through the artist’s reputation.
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| 58 | Conserving Conservatism | Is there anything for libertarians in
the latest stance athwart history? Martin Morse Wooster weighs Andrew
Sullivan’s “conservatism of doubt.”
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| 59 | Road Trip US and A | Andrew Ferguson charts the cross-country trek
of Kazakhstan’s fourth most famous person: Borat Sagdiyev.
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| 55 | Booknotes | Whole stories of clones and dragons, and half the story
of the conservative movement in America.
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| 56 | Notes on Contributors | The bold and the beautiful. |
| 62 | Terra Incognita | As above, so below. |
