Vol. 46 No. 4, August - August 2014
Index
- Barack Obama: Stealth Libertarian? As unlikely as it sounds, anti-interventionists may miss the 44th president when he's gone.
- Correction.
- Reaction.
- Should vaccines be mandatory?
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Assassination nation: killings go to court.
- Pregnancy crimes: illegal birth defects.
- Amazon Tax Blues: online sales tax fail.
- Constitution Kerfuffle: free speech in Hawaii.
- Death row odds: innocents executed.
- Quotes.
- Awful ethanol: biofuels, busted.
- NYPD Snoops: end of an error.
- Smart Phone drones: an app for that.
- The power of failure.
- A new ordinance passed by the Minneapolis City Council requires nightclubs and other businesses featuring loud music to provide earplugs to patrons.
- In Florida, the St. Lucie County school board has fired teacher Dru Dehart.
- Kalyb Primm Wiley, a second grader in Kansas City, admits he started screaming after other students began taunting him.
- Officials at Maine's Lewiston High School have suspended a sophomore, who wasn't identified by local media, for 10 days for bringing a bright yellow water pistol to school.
- Preferences nullified: SCOTUS vs. affirmative action.
- The Olympia, Washington, school district has placed a bus driver on leave after video allegedly showed him bullying a special needs student.
- The Palma City Council in Majorca is looking at a law that would ban people from walking around the streets wearing only swimsuits.
- Three fourth graders at Idaho's Central Canyon Elementary School have been suspended for the rest of the school year for bringing empty cans, empty magic markers, and scraps of paper to school.
- When the Community College of Baltimore County turned down Brandon Jenkins' application to its radiation therapy program, he asked for an explanation.
- Digital lineups: electronic identifications.
- Google dark: black-market search.
- Return of the anti-war right.
- Being a Libertarian in D.C.
- NYC Vape-In: panning the ban.
- A lethal injection of reality: medicalizing executions helps maintain support for the death penalty.
- The crony capitalism machine: the Export-Import Bank is inefficient and immoral.
- The moral case for self-driving cars: welcoming our new robot chauffeurs.
- Obamacare's phony success story: after year one, the health care overhaul is riddled with problems.
- Selling Obamacare: the weird, misleading propaganda behind the federal health care law.
- Putin's new old Russia: Moscow returns to authoritarianism at home and aggression abroad.
- Gold and gods in modern India: the curious religiosity of India's nouveau riche.
- The $2 million teacher: teachers pay teachers lets educators reassert their professionalism--and earn big bucks.
- Krist Novoselic's alternative politics: the Nirvana bassist on voting, farming, anarchism, heroin, and Kurt Cobain.
- Kurt Cobain Lives!(Briefly Noted) (Brief article) (Book review)
- Undocumented American.
- Race and War.
- Dancing with fear in their eyes.
- Living with inequality: Has Thomas Piketty really found 'the central contradiction of capitalism'?
- Singularity Cinema.
- Humane and Pro-Growth.
- The secret history of the telephone network.
- How 'Crazy Negroes' with guns helped kill Jim Crow civil rights and armed self defense in the South.
- Kickstarting John Galt: a behind-the-scenes look at the third and final Atlas Shrugged movie.
- Smart Apps vs. Obamacare.
- Fooling the Cameras.