May 2003
Volume 53, 2003FEATURES
A Philanthropist Goes to Washington
Ruth Lilly's $120 Million Donation to Americans for the Arts is Hardly Philanthropic
MAY 01, 2003 by JAMES L. PAYNE
The State's Quest for Total Information Awareness
Making it Easier for Strangers to Roam through Our Private Records Will Not Increase Our Security
MAY 01, 2003 by DAVID M. BROWN
Selling History with Dolls
Free Markets, Selling History, Can Benefit Us All
MAY 01, 2003 by ANDREW P. MORRISS
Does Prosperity Depend on Education?
Numerous Self-Made Tycoons Succeed with Limited Formal Education
MAY 01, 2003 by CHRISTOPHER LINGLE
How California's Consumer Laws Legalize Extortion
California Trial Lawyers Target Small Business with Frivolous Lawsuits
MAY 01, 2003 by STEVEN GREENHUT
I Never Dream of Nicotine
"Addiction" Cannot be Weighed, Measured, or Lovingly Caressed--But Trial Lawyers Can Profit From It
MAY 01, 2003 by TED ROBERTS
Saving the Environment for a Profit, Victorian-Style
Economic Progress Mandates the Development of Efficient Practices and the Discovery of Profitable Uses for Industrial Waste
MAY 01, 2003 by PIERRE DESROCHERS
What's Wrong with How We Teach Economics
Economic Education Places Too Much Stock in Mathematical Formulas and Not Enough in the Study of Human Behavior
MAY 01, 2003 by BRANDON CROCKER
Berry Gordy Jr. and the Original "Black Label"
Motown Records' Founder Gave America Some of its Best Music Moments
MAY 01, 2003 by LARRY SCHWEIKART
What's So Good About Democracy?
It Is Almost Impossible to Design a System That Produces "The People's" Verdict
MAY 01, 2003 by NORMAN BARRY
It was once said that "democracy is the most promiscuous word in the language; she is everybody's mistress." Indeed, political regimes of widely differing institutional features label themselves democracies, as did totalitarian communist orders. Often, the best guide to a country's democratic credentials was that it didn't call itself democratic: compare West Germany's Federal Republic with the East German Democratic Republic.
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