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February 13, 2002 Conning Americans How Politicians Create Dependence on Government Charlotte Twight
April 18, 2002 Understanding America’s Terrorist Crisis What Should Be Done? Gore Vidal, Lewis H. Lapham, Barton J. Bernstein, Robert Higgs, Thomas Gale Moore
May 2, 2002 Liberty for Women Wendy McElroy
May 3, 2002 Entrepreneurial Economics for Fun, Profit and a Better, Freer World Alexander T. Tabarrok
May 7, 2002 The Real Abraham Lincoln A Debate Harry V. Jaffa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo
June 6, 2002 Big Brother Is Watching James Bamford
September 24, 2002 The U.S. War on Terrorism Myths and Realities Lewis H. Lapham, Alan W. Bock, J. Victor Marshall, Seth Rosenfeld, Paul H. Weaver
October 23, 2002 Secrecy, Freedom and Empire Lessons for Today from Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers E. Daniel Ellsberg, Barton J. Bernstein, Edwin B. Firmage, David R. Henderson, J. Victor Marshall
February 20, 2003 Solving America’s Public School Crisis Peter Brimelow, John D. Merrifield
May 27, 2003 Globalization and Cultural Diversity Friends or Foes? Tyler Cowen
June 25, 2003 Preemptive War Strategy A New U.S. Empire? Joel S. Beinin, Edward A. Olsen, Ivan Eland
October 2, 2003 The Truth About Medical Marijuana Ed Rosenthal, Donald I. Abrams, Edwin Dobb, Robert J. MacCoun
November 13, 2003 PATRIOT Acts: I & II The New Assault on Liberty? Ivan Eland, David Cole, Margaret Russell, James Bovard
January 30, 2004 Confessions of a Media Maverick Exposing Hucksters, Cheats and Scam Artists John Stossel
February 4, 2004 The Voluntary City Restoring Urban Life in Crisis Times Peter Gordon, Fred E. Foldvary, Daniel B. Klein
March 9, 2004 The Promised Land of the Free Richard A. Epstein, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
April 21, 2004 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Global Marketplace Robert W. Galvin, Peter A. Thiel, Daniel J. Edelman
May 6, 2004 Drug War Crimes Jeffrey A. Miron, Joseph D. McNamara, Ethan A. Nadelmann
May 14, 2004 Why Liberty Is Failing in Latin America Alvaro Vargas Llosa
June 8, 2004 Terrorism and Iraq What is the Nature of the Relationship?: A Debate Don Smith, Stephen Hayes, Walter Russell Mead, Ivan Eland
June 17, 2004 The Future of Iraq: Democracy or Quagmire? George Bisharat, Ivan Eland, James H. Noyes, Christopher Scheer
September 24, 2004 Gag Rule On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy Lewis H. Lapham
September 29, 2004 Against Leviathan Government Power and a Free Society Robert Higgs
October 28, 2004 The Empire Has No Clothes U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed Ivan Eland
January 27, 2005 The Death Penalty on Trial Bill Kurtis, Franklin E. Zimring
March 1, 2005 How—And How Not—To Fight Terrorism Michael Scheuer
May 3, 2005 Liberty for Latin America How to Undo 500 Years of State Oppression Alvaro Vargas Llosa
September 21, 2005 Immigration Wars Open or Closed Borders for America? Peter Laufer, Benjamin Powell
November 15, 2005 An Evening with Michael Crichton “States of Fear: Science or Politics?” Michael Crichton, Bruce N. Ames, Sallie Louise Baliunas, William M. Gray, George H. Taylor
November 17, 2005 The War on Terror Implications for Domestic Security and Civil Liberties