Groovier and groovier.

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In reason's 20th anniversary issue in 1988, then-Publisher Robert W. Poole Jr. looked back at life in the year the magazine was born and declared "things are a lot groovier now" (for more, see Follow-Up, page 16). Poole, who was the first to use the word privatization with its modern meaning, is a former editor of reason and the founder of the Reason Foundation, where he remains director of transportation studies. Here he lists three ways the world has become groovier still in the last 20 years.

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1 The Collapse of Communism: "Even in 1988, the demise of the USSR, the liberation of the 'captive nations,' and the economic transformation of China were unimaginable. Freedom has increased for over a billion people, and socialism as an energizing idea seems to be on its last legs. While there are still nuclear threats...