February 2005

Science Fiction

Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.

Mike Godwin

Crime

Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods

How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility"

Stephen Town and Randal O'Toole

Bridget Jones, Super Spy

Chick Lit goes to war.

Tim Cavanaugh

Guns

Humanizing Gun Nuts

An anthropologist shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts.

Eric Dzinski

History

Our Forgotten Goddess

Isabel Paterson and the origins of libertarianism.

Brian Doherty

Congress

Denny the Dullard

Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

Charles Oliver

Sex

Doctor Sex, Ph.D.

Are we all Kinseyans now?

Julian Sanchez

Terrorism

Editor's Note: Four More Years…But of What?

Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

Nick Gillespie

Social Issues

The "Values" Panic

The right has no monopoly on morals--or on moral bullying.

Cathy Young

Campaigns/Elections

That Old, Tired Balancing Act

Did the election kill objective campaign journalism?

Matt Welch

Economics

Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom

Is "economic freedom" just another word for nothing left to do?

Nick Gillespie

Internet

San Francisco Unwired

Boondoggles by the bay.

Tim Cavanaugh

Internet

Cyberfatwa

Blogger death threats

Charles Paul Freund

Civil Rights

Songs of Innocence

DNA testing victory

Julian Sanchez

Academia

Negative Action

Backfiring racial preferences

Julian Sanchez

Drug Policy

Disappearing Docs

DEA painkiller flip-flop

Jacob Sullum

Academia

Civics Lessons

Schools frown on political speech.

Julian Sanchez

The U.N. vs. Cloning

Stem cell crackdown

Ronald Bailey

Crime

Three Strikes, Out?

Sea change in California

Matt Welch

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor

Iraq

Soundbite: Torture and Defeat

Seymour Hersh interviewed by Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez

25 Years Ago in Reason

Reason Staff

Campaigns/Elections

Data: Money Keeps Talking

Julian Sanchez

Letters

Reason Staff

Contributors

Reason Staff

Terrorism

Artifact: No Through Street

Charles Paul Freund

Quote and Source

Reason Staff