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Letters
Our readers fire back.
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Reflections
We waste our votes, call shenanigans, shed a tear, abandon ship, and realize we can't afford "free."
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Features
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Election 2008: Beyond the Pundits' Palaver
We analyze the quadrennial national tragicomedy.
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Report from the Battlefield
Bruce Ramsey takes a libertarian view of the races and issues in the recent election.
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Confessions of a Planning Commissioner
Warren Gibson becomes part of a little group of well-meaning people.
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The Greatest Place Where No One Goes
Go to Uruguay, Doug Casey urges, before everyone else does.
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Masters of the Blog
Jim Walsh looks for gems in the internet jungle.
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Beyond Open or Closed Borders
Laurence M. Vance argues that solving the immigration issue is more difficult than opening borders.
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The Year I could Have Shaken the World
Jacques Delacroix remembers his youthful discovery of a communist world.
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The Ethics of Closed Shops
Should the law constrain adults' freedom of contract? Sometimes, Gary Jason argues, it must.
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Reviews
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Education, Real and Unreal
Charles Murray sheds light on our schools. Ross Levatter examines the results.
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Revised and Incomplete
Mark Skousen finds that "Basic Economics" misses some bases.
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Unchained State
Who turned loose the state? Robert P. Murphy spreads the blame widely.
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History Lite
Jon Harrison discovers in "W." an impressive surface and very little depth.
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Ease on Down "The Road"
Jo Ann Skousen travels a route that is both ugly and poetic, tragic yet redolent of hope.
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Bureuacrats of Easy Virtue
Bruce Ramsey turns the spotlight on the waste of resources used to fight AIDS.
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An American Gargle
Stephen Cox watches a movie he wants to like, and runs screaming from the theater.
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Empty and Ugly
Jo Ann Skousen views a film that has the director, the star, the topic — and falls flat.
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Filmnotes
Naked capitalism and cold calculation.
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