Vol. 41 No. 6, November 2009
Index
- The unknown war: the defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more?
- 20,000 nations above the sea.
- Anatomy of a child pornographer.
- Reason is pleased to welcome a new producer.
- Reason sends our condolences to the family of the economist Rose Friedman, who died in August.
- A hard pill to swallow: is the stimulus turning the economy around?
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Peace with poppies: opium in Afghanistan.
- Viva Viagra no more: mommy, what's E.D.?
- Cuba's Craigslist: Online black markets.
- Mobile democracy: cell phones vs. jail cells.
- Quotes.
- TARP payback: pay czar in action.
- Camera cash: traffic light surveillance.
- Comics for Freedom Lovers.
- Trailer failure: more FEMA follies.
- Weighty arguments: insuring our waistlines.
- A broken road reflector ripped a hole in one of the tires on Paul Holden's car, so he filed a claim with the state of Ohio and paid the $25 filing fee.
- A police officer in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, put some fear into seven youngsters selling lemonade.
- After Hollywood, Florida, police officer Joel Francisco rear-ended Alexandra Torrensvilas's car at an intersection, he radioed for backup.
- British officials say they will provide data collected by their planned national ID cards to tax authorities.
- Law enforcement officers across Massachusetts regularly use the state criminal records system to snoop on celebrities, according to a state audit.
- New Zealand officials made a small error in their response to an elderly Indian man's immigration application.
- Target: Google: antitrust run amok.
- The British government has told communications companies to keep track of all Internet contacts anyone makes-including email messages, website visits, and use of social networking sites--and organize them in case law enforcement agencies need the information.
- The Swedish government has barred a family from giving their new daughter the middle name Michael, in honor of Michael Jackson.
- Iranian rebellion grows on the web.
- Layoff blues: job retraining failure.
- Starship salvation: Icelandic currency in space.
- Driven crazy.
- Fading print: how we will survive without newspapers.
- The myth of the multiplier: why the stimulus package hasn't reduced unemployment.
- Fed up: the political movement to curtail the Federal Reserve goes from fringe to mainstream.
- Are property rights enough? Should libertarians care about cultural values? A reason debate.
- 'The last gasp of the dinosaurs': publisher and flat-tax Republican Steve Forbes on 1930s-style economic policies, the news industry, and the future of the GOP.
- The cold war never ended: twenty years later, historians still can't figure out why the West won.
- Tom Paine, drawn.
- Commie art.
- Battlestar philosophica.
- The peril of palatability: a former FDA chief sounds the alarm about dangerously delicious food.
- After the bomb, the museum.
- A pirate road movie.
- Tyranny of the minority: James MacGregor Burns' biased and cartoonish new history of the Supreme Court.
- The way to Sesame Street: the politics of children's television.
- Hollywood comrades: why the Soviets were such lovable movie villains.
- Lights out.