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Letters
Words in edgewise.
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Reflections
We co-sign America's subprime mortgage, text while we drive, marvel at chutzpah, can't win for losing, defend Marxism, fishtail around icy streets, refuse to kneel, follow the money, and pay our respects.
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Features
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Same as the Old Boss?
Bruce Ramsey analyzes Obama's first moves, and concludes he's not as radical as some might fear.
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Questioning One's Insanity
Even libertarians, Thomas Szasz contends, often turn a blind eye to psychiatric slavery. If so, Jo Ann Skousen maintains, she is not one of them.
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Promise Now, Pay Never
The death of the leviathan state, argues Jim Walsh, will start with a crisis caused by unfunded political promises.
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Bullet Train to Bankruptcy
Their state is broke, so California voters decided to spend tens of billions of dollars on the world's largest toy train set. Randal O'Toole investigates.
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India, Behind and Beneath
The reality of India, as Jayant Bhandari reports, is more interesting and more troubling than anything revealed by the attacks in Mumbai.
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Reviews
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Who Gives, and Why It Matters
Scorned by some, exploited by many, the charitable impulse, Gary Jason argues, is still important.
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Why Don't They Resign?
Why does accpeting "responsibility" no longer entail accpeting any consequences? James L. Payne puts the blame where it belongs.
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Liberty in 623 Pages
Ross Levatter hails the completion of an essential book on the libertarian movement.
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Cruising Hitler
The New Tom Cruise movie would be merely ordinary, says Jo Ann Skousen, if it weren't for the presence of some libertarian ideas.
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Bond-Aid
Why do libertarians like James Bond? Ross Levatter hazard some guesses and diagnoses the new Bond film.
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Rags to Rupees
From the streets of India comes the tale of an intrepid individual. Jo Ann Skousen reviews.
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Curiouser and Curiouser
Jo Ann Skousen considers the case of a man who is, well, very different from other people.
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