Editor's Note

• The Uses of Hyperbole

  Exaggerated doomsday forecasts are false, regrettable, inevitable, and possibly necessary. Matt Welch

Citings

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In the Raw

Contraband milk Katherine Mangu-Ward

List: Rough Gravel

Three lessons from the 2008 campaign Mike Gravel
Lists

Feds in the Fishbowl

Whatever floats your boat Ronald Bailey

Course Correction

Classroom interference Kerry Howley

Collateral Damage

Drug informant outrage Radley Balko

Getting His Goat

Religious freedom in Texas Jacob Sullum

Columns

• No Child Left Behind

  Texas abuses children to prevent abuse. Jacob Sullum

• Look Who's Coming in Third!

  With Bob Barr's nomination, the Libertarian Party is threatening to achieve historical relevance. David Weigel

• First Amendment Lite

  How the feds police liquor-related thought crime Greg Beato

• Carbon-Based Prohibition

  If some environmentalists have their way, simple math suggests life as we know it will end Russell Seitz

• The Afterlife of American Clothes

  Haitian entrepreneurs find value in our castoffs. Joanne McNeil

• The (Diminishing) Return of Pandering

  Politicians keep doling out giveaways to a public that increasingly doesn't want any. Tim Cavanaugh

Features

• An Alliance for Freedom?

  Republican strategist Grover Norquist insists the Leave Us Alone Coalition is alive and well. Nick Gillespie

• Earning Their Keep

  A new breed of urban Catholic high school asks disadvantaged kids to work for their tuition. Laura Vanderkam

Culture & Reviews

• The Day the Music Dies

  Why your tunes won't PlayForSure Timothy B. Lee

• Crying Wolf

  Are we all fascists now? Michael C. Moynihan

• Remixing Television

  Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground Jesse Walker

• Conservatives Against Empire

  The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right W. James Antle, III

Artifact

• Artifact: Hope Floats

  Homesteading on the high seas Katherine Mangu-Ward