Vol. 45 No. 7, December 2013
Index
- The intolerant state: sometimes, government is the things centralizers choose for us.
- 45 Enemies of freedom.
- Reaction.
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Area 51 revealed! Aircraft, not aliens.
- Spies in love: NSA surveillance abuses.
- Higher is healthier? Psychedelic science.
- Quotes.
- Secretly tortured: Guantanamo Bay ruling.
- Why no-fly?
- Homeland insecurity: TSA everywhere!(Citings) (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) (Brief article)
- IRS-approved: same-sex marriage.
- L.A. lifts mural ban: license to paint.
- Which states will legalize pot next?
- Chauncey Wright has an IQ of 54.
- Feds rank colleges: Obama picks winners.
- Monterey County, California, officials agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by the family of Rogelio Serrato Jr.
- Parents of students at California's Calimesa Elementary School weren't happy with a new policy that required students to kneel before Principal Dana Carter and a few other administrators.
- Police in St. Petersburg, Russia, raided a museum and seized a painting showing a nude and musclebound Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama.
- Prosecutors in Marathon County, Wisconsin, have charged a 19-year-old woman with two felony counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
- Rubber stumped: spying oversight.
- South Carolina's Coastal Carolina University has banned the distribution of the Weekly Surge from campus.
- York County, South Carolina, sheriffs deputy Dave Prescott has been removed from his post as a school resource officer.
- Delta vs. ObamaCare: friendly skies, unfriendly rules.
- RIP Ronald Coase, the economist who hated math.
- Face time: mug-shot matching.
- Just say no to college.
- Tolerating pot with a frown: why the feds had little choice but to let legalization happen.
- How much would war in Syria cost?
- Watched cops are polite cops: requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing.
- The unstoppable plastic gun: Cody Wilson distributed plans for 3D-printable weapons to the world, got shut down by the federal government, and won anyway.
- Bitcoin: more than money: the digital protocol promises to change more than just the future of currency--despite government attempts to rein it in.
- The death of Intrade: can prediction markets survive government assault?
- George Will's libertarian evolution: the nation's most syndicated columnist talks about political philosophy, drugs, isolationism, optimism, and his political development over four decades in Washington.
- The truth about war: photojournalists capture the brutal consequences of when America attacks.
- How poker became a crime: the capricious federal crackdown on the Internet version of an all-American game.
- Markets for meth.
- Trolleyology.
- Kindly inquisitors, revisited: twenty years on, the case for restricting speech in the name of tolerance is weaker than ever.
- We should be dancing.
- Modern art turns 100.
- DIY horror.
- Sex, drugs, and sociology: one scholar's deep dive into the black markets of the Big Apple.
- The futility of digital censorship: a fictional look at governments' desperate efforts to restrict the flow of information on the Internet.
- Number-crunching the courts: it's time to bring data-driven oversight to the nation's halls of justice.
- The disgusting, amazing 3D-printed ear.