Some deregulation is also important, starting with the antitrust laws that forbid companies from sharing information about business practices. That isn't what the cyberanarchists and their libertarian backers in Washington want to hear. But, given the very real threat hackers pose, paranoia is an indulgence we can ill afford. Jeffrey Rosen wrote about what happens when campaign finance reform meets the Internet . John B. Judis reports from Arizona, where the character issue makes people vote against McCain.
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A letter to my people. Nicholas Howe on Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf .