November 2004

Mandatory Health Insurance Now!

It will save private medicine -- and spur medical innovation.

Ronald Bailey

Losing Patients

A film questions Canada's nationalized health care.

John Graham

Meanwhile in Afghanistan

The coming "warlord war" in America's other occupation.

Ben Fenwick

Culture & Reviews

Right-Wingers Redux

Are we a conservative nation? Does it matter?

Brian Doherty

Cramped Style

How regulators derailed California's most environmentally progressive development.

Michael De Alessi

Free Culture vs. Big Media

Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain.

David Post

Burning Man's Piano Mover

Turning ruined instruments into a desert spectacle.

Brian Doherty

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Electoral Unenthusiasm

Nick Gillespie

Columns

A Swift Boat Kick in the Teeth

How the mainstream media grapple with partisans.

Matt Welch

Defending Repression

Why are conservatives trying to rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese internment?

Cathy Young

Talk Like an Egyptian

Is Arab popular culture uniformly anti-American?

Charles Paul Freund

Citings

The Big O

Erotica in the canon

Charles Paul Freund

Science & Technology

Build a Better Mouse

Of mice, men, and aging.

Ronald Bailey

Subway Searches

Your baggage, please.

Hanah Metchis

Civil Liberties

Razing Objections

Eminent domain curtailed.

Jacob Sullum

Spamming Voters

Political junk ease

Jeff Taylor

Secession Fever

Live free...or in Vermont

Hanah Metchis

Selling PATRIOT

Propaganda from Ashcroft

Judge, Jury, and Cop

The Border Patrol's new powers

Hanah Metchis

Fluid Check

Drug test debunking.

Jacob Sullum

Minding Your Business

Partnerships in snooping.

Soundbite

Political Spin Doctors

25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

Lost Horizon

Letters

Contributors

Artifact

Artifact: Stretching Condoms

Charles Paul Freund

Quotes

Quotes and Source