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May 2003

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Pulling Our Own Strings

Philosopher Daniel Dennett on determinism, human "choice machines," and how evolution generates free will.

Features

Civil Liberties

Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi

What JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths.

Velvet President

Why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell and more.

Culture & Reviews

Standard Issue

The dot-com tragedy denied.

Measuring Up

Testing the pretensions of market research and polling.

Monster Mash-Ups

How musical collages are challenging traditional ideas of authorship.

Property Wrongs

Can property exist without the state?

Make Mine Mutants!

Marvel comics and plenitude in contemporary America.

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Human Choice Machines

Columns

Hillbilly Heartache

A Georgia senator gets a dose of reality.

The Mystery of Mary Rosh

How a new form of journalism investigated a gun research riddle.

Skin Flicks 101

What porn studies profs don't get about sex

Citings

Massively Misguided Transit

Adventures in light rail

Comic Bureaucracy

Rachel Alembakis

Bureaucratic Enrichment Zone

A radical proposal wasted

Science & Technology

What's Your Damage?

Corn losers

Indecent Rules

Pleasing the censors

Nicotine Fights

Bootlegging and violence

We Want Your House

Eminent domain takings

Sara Rimensnyder

Cosmetic Surgery

Drug war spending

Sara Rimensnyder

Overflowing Barrels

The porkiest bill ever?

Balance Sheet

Soundbite: Is Art Good for Us?

25 Years Ago in Reason:

Science & Technology

Data: Stimulant Response

Letters

Letters

Contributors

Contributors

Artifact

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Artifact

Potter Mouth

Charles Paul Freund

Quotes

Quotes and Source

Cartoons

The Nerd-ification of America

58 YEARS OF REASON

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