Print Archives
August/September 2005
Editor's Note
Editor's Note: Medical Marijuana Madness
Nick Gillespie
Contributors
Letters
Columns
Soul Survival
Is "the new neuromorality" a threat to traditional views of right and wrong? Cathy Young
Rant: ID Card Trick
Can we count on the DMV to foil terrorists? Jacob Sullum
Capturing Tom Friedman
The Times columnist does foreign policy punditry by cliché. Matt Welch
Features
Self-Medicating in Burma
Pharmaceutical freedom in an outpost of tyranny. Kerry Howley
The Iconoclast
Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection Shikha Dalmia
Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs
Prescription laws make us sicker and poorer. Kerry Howley
The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't
How the trauma industry exploited 9/11. Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers
All Happy Families
The looming battle over gay parenting. Julian Sanchez
A Menace To Society
Sick people who smoke pot to get better...and our government's tireless efforts to stop them! Peter Bagge
Culture & Reviews
A Rumble on Sesame Street
The politics of public broadcasting. Jesse Walker
Under the Spell of Malthus
Biology doesn't explain why societies collapse. Ronald Bailey
Illegal Cities
Life among the Third World's squatters. Robert Nelson
Who Killed PayPal?
"Consumer advocates" can make life miserable for consumers. Radley Balko
The Search for Real Absinthe
Like Tinkerbell, the Green Fairy lives only if we believe in her. Jacob Sullum
Artifact
Artifact: Genghis Kitsch
Kerry Howley