Vol. 45 No. 4, August 2013
Index
- Making the world a better place since 1968: how reason and freedom have changed since our humble founding in a turbulent year.
- Down the drain.
- How government killed the Medical Profession.
- Reaction.
- The cannabis is out of the bag: why prohibitionists have an interest in allowing marijuana legalization.
- Freedom [not equal to] polygamy and heroin: conservatives are wrong to worry that libertarian policies will lead to libertinism.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Exiled for pot: marijuana and deportation.
- Feds read your email: privacy rules ignored.
- Bullet trains, derailed: high speed rail scam.
- Medicaid effect: wealth, not health protection.
- Quotes.
- You are what you like: Facebook revelations.
- Cab app wars: taxi protectionism.
- Mint condition: cool, refreshing DWI.
- Puff talk on taxes: tobacco tax revenues.
- Security after Boston bombings.
- A Turkish court has given classical pianist Fazil Say a 10-month suspended sentence for defaming Islam on Twitter.
- After police in Bloomfield, Connecticut, arrested Joseph Stravinkas.
- Antonio Martinez was walking between his home and his family's bakery when a San Diego sheriff's deputy decided to stop him and ask about a domestic violence incident.
- Disarmed by mistake: New York's new gun law.
- Former Princeton, West Virginia, police officer Christopher Winkler was in his uniform when he met a 17-year-old boy and tried to get him to perform oral sex on him to pay off a debt.
- Hawaii state Rep. Faye Hanohano (D-Puna) apologized for using racial slurs to describe state employees.
- Officials with Ohio's Clark Shawnee School District barred Ethan Clos from returning to kindergarten until he gets rid of his mohawk haircut.
- Ron Tuitt was fired from his job as a second-grade teacher in Paterson.
- Suicide denied: disabled woman loses in court.
- Five more years of free minds and free markets.
- Unpeaked oil: more gas every day.
- Digital dollars.
- Pot helps quitters: smoke up, smoke less.
- Yes, we do have a debt problem: the president and his supporters try to downplay the continuing crisis.
- 45 enemies of freedom: people who have been trying to control your life since reason was founded in 1968.
- Seven surprising truths about the world: a lot of the bad news you think you know is wrong.
- My week in North Korea: a Soviet-born American tours the Hermit Kingdom and finds humanity in a most inhumane place.
- From communist Romania to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Judge Alex Kozinski talks about free speech, cell phones, and how bubble gum made him a capitalist.
- Freedom is good for you: science proves overwhelmingly that economic freedom helps women, children, and other living things.
- How Reggae defeated mambo: when communism squelched popular music in Cuba, Jamaica took over as cultural capital of the Caribbean.
- Disaster diet.
- Speculative science.
- Gay denial.
- Revolutionary reading: nine transformative books of the last 45 years.
- Saharan sounds.
- Checkpoint Charlie.
- From white slavery to Bratz dolls: feminism and moral panics.
- Choose your own adventure: since 1968, video games have just kept getting better and better.
- Beef goes upscale: can the small-batch foodie revolution transform the red meat market?
- Transparency fail.