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July 2003 Issue - 16 ArticlesDepartments
- Editor's Note, pp. 4-5
Guilty Pleasures
- Contributors, pp. 6-7
- Letters, pp. 8-9
Pain and relief, boobtube power, comic warrior, and porous border
- Citings, pp. 10-15
Going rate at the clink, electoral home rule, a secret office blacklist, horrors told
Columns
- Socialized Gambing
Joe Bob Briggs
, pp. 16-19 Illinois pols want to muscle in on Casinos
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Media Critic, Critique Thyself (Review) Cathy Young
, pp. 20-21 Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media is as shoddy as the books it attacks
- What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman
- Rant: Low Budget
Tim Cavanaugh
, p. 22 Feeling blue and seeing red over a free-spending administration
- What We Believe
Peter Bagge
, p. 23 All hail the conventional wisdom
Features
- The Anti-Pleasure Principle
Jacob Sullum
, pp. 24-33 The "food police" and the pseudoscience of self-denial
- Cutting the Tripwire
Doug Bandow
, pp. 34-39 W's time to get out of Korea
- Where the Shah Went Alone
Iraj Isab Rahmlin
, pp. 40-47 Meditations on a life under tyranny
Culture & Reviews
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Back to the Future (2 Reviews) Michael Valdez Moses
, pp. 48-56 The nostalgic yet progressive appeal of wizards, hobbits, and Jedi knights
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 Film) by Peter Jackson
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 Film) by Peter Jackson
- Birth of a Medium
Jesse Walker
, pp. 57-58 Video games, art, and moral panic
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Tear Down These Walls (2 Reviews) Charles Oliver
, pp. 59-63 Making the case for free trade
- Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati
- Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas A. Irwin
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Machine Melee (Review) Brian Doherty
, pp. 64-65 Robot combat as the 21st-century dream sport
- Gearheads by Brad Stone
- Artifact: Selling Saddam
Charles Paul Freund
, pp. 66-68 Destroying a dictator---with hot sauce