Liberty

Current Issue | Archive | Subscription Services | Liberty Store | Writers' Guide | Editors & Staff | Search | Donate | FreedomFest 2009 | Free sample issue

September 2007
Volume 21,
Number 9

R.W. Bradford (1947–2005)
founder

Stephen Cox
editor

Patrick Quealy
publisher

Andrew Ferguson
managing editor

John Hospers
Bruce Ramsey
Jane S. Shaw
senior editors

Mark Rand
Kathleen Bradford
assistant editors

Brien Bartels
David T. Beito
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
Gary Jason
Bill Kauffman
Dave Kopel
Bart Kosko
Sarah McCarthy
Wendy McElroy
William E. Merritt
Robert H. Nelson
Randal O'Toole
Ross Overbeek
Durk Pearson
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

Christine Li
editorial intern

S.H. Chambers
Rex F. May
cartoonists

  Inside Liberty  

4 LettersAfter you.
9 ReflectionsWe have a crisis of condoms, grill illegal weenies, dub Sir Salman, face the firing squad, fall off the fast track, melt our pennies, get demoted to Lesser Satan, move towards a single-payer tax system, catch an actress red-handed, and search for H.L. Mencken's Baltimore.

Features

23 Cartman ShruggedThe Founding Fathers, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and the creators of "South Park": Paul A. Cantor traces a distinguished intellectual tradition.
31 Somalia: The Rubble and the BlossomWhat works when the government doesn't? Vince Vasquez provides the answer.
34 Live Earth: Dead ShowChris Rock said he prayed that Live Earth would end global warming "the same way Live Aid ended world hunger." He'll get his wish, reports Tim Slagle.
37 Me and the EigerThere are two types of people in this world, and Murray Rothbard was never afraid to say what type he was.
38 Love SongFame and obscurity, songs and silence, love and death: as Alec Mouhibian shows, opposites attract, and absolute opposites attract absolutely.

Reviews

41 The Sicko ScamPatrick Quealy looks for a cogent analysis of health care, and finds that Moore is less.
43 A Low, Dishonest DecadeThe New Deal is an ever-growing monster of historical myths. Timothy Sandefur takes a good whack at it.
45 Containment and CharacterJon Harrison traces the vicissitudes of American foreign policy, as seen in the career of George Kennan.
48 Seeking God, Dead or AliveChristopher Hitchens has staged a funeral for God, but Ted Roberts hasn't yet joined the mourners.
50 How to Make an ArmyThink signing up for Selective Service is merely a formality? Bruce Ramsey bids you think again.
52 The Tribute Vice Pays to VirtueSorting the virtues from the vices might be easier, Leland B. Yeager shows, if you had a good book to help you.
53 Summer SizzlerJo Ann Skousen catches the latest adventure of the detective who's saving the world, one movie at a time.
47 Notes on ContributorsOur summer flings.
54 Terra IncognitaSurrender to the void.

© Copyright 2009, Liberty Foundation


Send editorial comments to letters@libertyunbound.com.
All letters to the editor are assumed to be for publication unless otherwise indicated.

Send web site comments to webmaster@libertyunbound.com.


Current Issue | Archive | Subscription Services | Liberty Store | Writers' Guide | Editors & Staff | Search | Advertise in Liberty