Vol. 46 No. 2, June - June 2014
Index
- When the left turned against free speech: the long, ugly journey from the Free Speech Movement to professors assaulting protesters.
- Addicted to brain scans.
- Reaction.
- The Prohibitionist Curse.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Europe vs. free games: Commission investigates apps.
- Hookers at church: Sex worker stings.
- Deaf man, dumb cops: sign language, not a gun.
- Hacker crackdown: licensing education innovation.
- Quotes.
- Thin mint munchies: Girl Scout entrepreneurship.
- Borderline disorders: checkpoint nation.
- Charters kicked out: De Blasio strikes back.
- Innocence offline: anti-Islam video takedown.
- The future of Bitcoin.
- A European Union report has recommended that the word bankruptcy be replaced with the phrase debt adjustment.
- A Tempe, Arizona, school resource officer accidentally shot a 14-year-old girl with her Taser.
- After police in Austin, Texas, pulled Larry Davis over for running a red light, they asked him to take a breathalyzer test.
- Banner banned: school censorship.
- Chuck Winship, general manager of Florida's Tarpon Springs Golf Course, has been forced to crack down on his customers.
- Dekalb County, Georgia, police officer Demetrius A. Kendrick has been indicted on a charge of violating his oath of office after allegedly planting marijuana on a man.
- Michigan State University was briefly locked down after someone reported seeing a man with a rifle at Bessey Hall.
- Some teachers at Missouri's Farmington High School balked at taking part in an active shooter drill.
- The Spanish government has proposed a new law that would require search engines to pay to display even brief fragments of copyrighted material.
- IRS loses in court: victory for economic freedom.
- Meter bleeder: unconstitutional tickets.
- South Park edited, again.
- Coverage costs rise: Obamacare costs.
- The former DEA agent turned Cannabis investor.
- Free birth control and unfree photographers: dubious rights threaten true liberty.
- Nothing left to cut? Federal lawmakers lack the imagination to live within their means.
- The moral case for designer babies: should parents be allowed to know if their fetus will get Alzheimer's?
- The gamer congressman: is Rep. Jared Polis the first in a wave of libertarian-leaning video game enthusiasts?
- A short history of game panics: from pinball to porn to online poker.
- 'A multiplayer game environment is actually a dream come true for an economist': the in-house economist for the company behind Half-Life and Portal explains what video games can teach us.
- A video game economy the size of a small country.
- Another drug bust gone bad: cops can't get their story straight in the killing of Eugene Mallory.
- Are video games art? Why games should be taken as seriously as novels, films, and other forms of creative expression.
- Curmudgeons in charge.
- Normalizing gay storytelling.
- All-American pastime.
- Sociology in fantasia: death, love, and dancing in online realms.
- Choose your own adventure: propaganda, games, and the quest for a more "democratic" media environment.
- Panopticon online.
- TV's true victory.
- Was a new virtual reality rig funded by suckers? The SEC mulls kickbacks for Oculus Kickstarter contributors.
- Gaming for good: are slacker gamers the new super-philanthropists?
- In war, not everyone is a soldier.