In REASON for April, Don B. Cates, Henry E. Schaffer, and William C. Waters IV outline the Centers for Disease Control's misguided campaign against guns. Also, Virginia Postrel notes the curious convergence of anti-market sentiments on the Left and the Right, Jacob Sullum interviews influential libertarian television reporter John Stossel, Walter Olson explores the dark, antilibertarian mind of erstwhile Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, and Loren Lomasky discovers that newspaper etiquette columnist Judith Martin, aka ''Miss Manners,'' is ''a theorist . . . one of the most important social commentators of our time . . . less in the tradition of Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt than that of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.'' (Reason, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Ste #400, LA, CA, 90034-6064.. Subscriptions $25/ 11 issues).

New from the Institute: Policy Analysis #268, Regulation Newspeak: The FCC's Children's Television Rules, by Robert Corn-Revere, explains why newly adopted rules for kids programming ignore market realities and violate broadcasters' rights to free speech; and in SSP #7, Privatizing Social Security: The $10 Trillion Opportunity, Martin Feldstein argues that privatizing the program would not only secure the incomes of pensioners, but would greatly increase the private savings rate, and thus the supply of investment capital. (Cato Institute, 1000 Massachussetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001. Policy Analyses $6 each).

In for March, Thomas Szasz warns that the medical marijuana victories in California and Arizona, by futher ''medicalizing'' bevavior, undermines liberty; R. W. Bradford reports on the remarkable dismantling of the state in New Zealand, and interviews chief engineer Sir Roger Douglas, former New Zealand Finance Minister; and Chester Alan Arthur interviews 1988 LP presidential candidate and newly elected Texas GOP Congressman Ron Paul. (Liberty, PO Box 1181, Port Townsend, WA 98368. Subscriptions $24.50/6 issues).

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