May 2001

Squatters

Citadels of Dead Capital

What the Third World must learn from U.S. history

Hernando de Soto

Public Health

Drunk with Power

The case against court-imposed 12-step treatments

Stanton Peele

Crime

Gun Ownership: The Numbers

Their Aim is True: Taking stock of America's real gun

Reason Staff

Movies

Comics Tragedy

Is the superhero invulnerable?

Brian Doherty

Don DeLillo's Bum Luck

The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation

Nick Gillespie

Medicine

Shrink Control

The limits of a psychiatrist's skepticism

Jacob Sullum

College

Talking the Talk

Have universities lost sight of why they exist?

Loren Lomasky

Sex

William Marston's Secret Identity

The strange private life of Wonder Woman's creator

Nick Gillespie

Internet

Inside Outsiders

Three media mavericks come to terms with success

Steven Kurtz

Crime

The Census and The Sopranos

Adventures in a post-racial America

Nick Gillespie

Politics

False Diagnosis

When it comes to gender, doctors don't play favorites.

Cathy Young

Regulation

It Happens Every Spring

Baseball's invisible hand is stuck in red tape.

Dan Lewis

History

Acts of Faith

In which our man in Washington hears Charlton Heston talk to himself and prays for relief from tax-funded religious charity.

Michael Lynch

Radio

Pacifica v. First Amendment

Jesse Walker

Civil Liberties

Costly Links

Brian Doherty

Hemp Holdup

Brian Doherty

The Geography of Somewhere

Charles Paul Freund

Stroke of Genius

Jeff Taylor

Sub Standard

Jeff Taylor

Civil Liberties

The British Inquisition

Jeff Taylor

Civil Liberties

Cleaning Out the Stacks

Sara Rimensnyder

Print

Elementary Biometrics

Sara Rimensnyder

Congress

Protest Protection

Sara Rimensnyder

Mexico

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor

Philosophy

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Charles Oliver