Vol. 43 No. 4, August 2011
Index
- The day everything continued to change: an overlooked lesson of 9/11: America's strength is based on dynamism.
- Education showdown.
- The post-postal society?
- Home insecurity: two privacy cases hit us where we live.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Design dangers: occupational licensing lunacy.
- Detention deficit: gitmo files tell all.
- Go get google? Tech-sector antitrust wars.
- Peace nixed: antiwar movement retreats.
- Porn pause: obscene investigations.
- Quotes.
- Applebee's welfare: California cities going broke.
- Civil battles ahead.
- Peanuts on a plane: no flying nuts?
- Poker bust: online gambling indictment.
- A federal judge ordered the city of Ecorse, Michigan, to pay Michael and Tammy Phelps $215,000 after police officers burst into the couple's home, threw them to the floor, and put a gun to Michael's face.
- An Independence, Missouri, man who was not identified in local press reports says he was surprised when police showed up at his home searching for marijuana.
- An Iranian court has found attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh guilty of "acting against national security" and producing "propaganda against the system," sentencing her to 11 years in prison, barring her from practicing law, and banning her from leaving the country for 20 years.
- Andrew Ryan, a former British soldier, says he was angered when some Muslims burned poppies on Remembrance Day.
- Burma has banned Skype and other VolP platforms.
- In April, law enforcement officials in Janesville, Wisconsin, locked down two middle schools and brought in drug-detecting dogs to sniff students' lockers.
- In Michigan, Julian and Thai Wendrow were arrested and jailed for allegedly sexually abusing their mute, autistic daughter.
- Shane Rhooms spent three weeks in jail after New York City police offices identified him as the man who shot at them when they spotted him smoking marijuana in Brooklyn.
- Time travel dramas have become quite popular in China.
- Counterfeit conviction: Liberty Dollar prosecution.
- Peace and the press: media bolster social cohesion.
- Revolution redux.
- Ancient ASBOs: behavioral bans of old.
- Boxing professor Keynes.
- The eternal fallout shelter: we're still living in the wake left by Cold War civil defense hysteria.
- The red/blue paradox: why do liberal states give while conservative states take?
- Fear of a Muslim America: in the fight against radical Islam, conservatives are trying to limit the property and speech rights of peaceful American Muslims.
- The cybersecurity-industrial complex: the feds erect a bureaucracy to combat a questionable threat.
- The declaration of Independents: meet the future of American politics.
- Cut the debt by cutting government: the first Reason-Rupe poll shows a country more radical than its politicians.
- Natural gas flip-flop: big environmental groups were for fracking before they were against it.
- Why art failed us after 9/11: trying to make sense of senselessness.
- Green rush.
- Bollywood vs. Jihad: which is the bigger threat to fundamentalist Islam: the Pentagon or Mumbai?
- The taxman as literature.
- Freakonomics: the movie.
- A John's life.
- Temptations of empire: two new studies reveal the inherent instability of imperialism.
- Guards keep California in lockdown.
- Spray paint the walls: graffiti, art, and advertising.
- Fair tax or foul? The promise and peril of changing the way we pay for government.
- Where's Hillary?