This issue explores how overcriminalization fuels modern “scandals,” defends free speech against proposed bans on cigarette advertising, and searches history for lessons from Rome’s decline. Further essays warn that well-intended civil-rights policies often undermine black economic progress, analyze Jamaica’s stagnation under protectionism, and document how federal policies have damaged Native American autonomy. The issue also includes a firsthand report from Poland’s anti-communist underground and concludes with book reviews and the annual index.
