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July 5, 2001 Why Are the Public Schools Failing and What Can Be Done? Richard K. Vedder, John D. Merrifield
May 16, 2001 Friedrich Hayek and the Future of Liberty Alan O. Ebenstein, Charles W. Baird
April 24, 2001 Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? David D. Friedman
March 20, 2001 Losing the Race? Black Progress, Freedom, and Independence John H. McWhorter
February 18, 2001 Common Law, Merchant Law, and Democratic Legislation Alexander T. Tabarrok
February 6, 2001 Can America’s Electoral System Be Fixed? Robert D. Cooter, Randy Simmons, Alexander T. Tabarrok
November 15, 2000 Gun Control: Separating Fact from Myth Gary Kleck, David B. Kopel
October 26, 2000 Public Health vs. The Nanny State? Jacob Sullum, Thomas J. DiLorenzo
October 14, 2000 Economic and Moral Factors in Favor of Open Immigration Alexander T. Tabarrok
September 7, 2000 The American Revolution and the Legacy of Liberty Joyce O. Appleby, Hans Eicholz, Henry E. Mayer
June 21, 2000 The War on Drugs Who is Winning? Who is Losing? Peter Dale Scott, J. Victor Marshall, Alexander Cockburn
May 24, 2000 Pearl Harbor Official Lies in an American War Tragedy? Robert B. Stinnett
April 25, 2000 Affirmative Action Pro and Con William T. Bagley, Ward A. Connerly
March 7, 2000 Pro Team Sports Are Politics and Corruption Winning? Roger G. Noll, Rodney Fort
February 15, 2000 Global Warming Scientific Fact or Fiction? S. Fred Singer
February 2, 2000 Saving the Environment Government, Friend or Foe? Peter W. Huber, Michael L. de Alessi
January 19, 2000 Freedom, Terror, and Falsehoods Lessons from the Twentieth Century G. Robert A. Conquest
December 9, 1999 The Microsoft Monopoly Where to Go from Here? Peter W. Huber, Thomas M. Lenard, Stan J. Liebowitz
November 23, 1999 The American Economy, 1935-47 Assessing Robert Higgs’ Pioneering Analysis of Government Policy Robert Higgs
November 17, 1999 The Civil War Liberty and American Leviathan Henry E. Mayer, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
October 20, 1999 Virtual Money, Privacy, and the Internet Peter A. Thiel, Richard W. Rahn
September 21, 1999 Guns and Violent Crime Don B. Kates, Jr., Joyce Lee Malcolm
July 20, 1999 Liberty and the Failures of Government Walter E. Williams
June 16, 1999 Tiananmen Square Ten Years Later Timothy J. Brook, Danxuan Yi, Jing Chang
April 28, 1999 The New Path for Africa Establishing Free-Market Societies George B. N. Ayittey
April 13, 1999 What Should Be Done with America's Schools? Williamson M. Evers, Andrew J. Coulson, Myron Lieberman
April 6, 1999 Fixing America’s Cities Privatization and Community Empowerment Stephen Goldsmith
March 31, 1999 Why Freedom? Tibor R. Machan, Jan Narveson
March 18, 1999 Free Markets and the Economics of Life Gary S. Becker, Guity Nashat Becker
March 9, 1999 Justice, Natural Rights and the Rule of Law Randy E. Barnett