# Libertarian Review, August 1981

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/periodicals/libertarian-review/libertarian-review-august-1981>

**Published:** August 1, 1981

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### Opening Shots, by Bill Birmingham

### _LR_ Editorials

- **More Forced Equality**
- **Reagan's China Gamble**
- **Catholics and conscientious Objection**

### Commerce Dpt.: The Agricultural Cartel, by Sheldon Richman

### What Makes Cities Live, by Joan Kennedy Taylor

### Transit as if People Mattered, by Chris Hocker

### The Guardian Angels: An Interview with Curtis Sliwa

### Crime in the Cities--The Drug Connection, by Roy A. Childs, Jr.

### The Shortage in Housing--The Crisis that Government Built, by Bruce Cooley

### Books and Arts

- **Tyler Cowen on Bruce Bartlett's _Reaganomics_**
- **Bill Birmingham on Amory B. and L. Hunter Lovins's _Energy/War_**
- **David Brudnoy on great movie ideas gone bad**
- **Jeff Riggenbach and Frederic Reynolds on Nabokov and literary nationalism**