These were the most read Reason.com columns last week:
Presidential Promises and Pretenses: Obama's contribution to
the "deficit of trust," by Jacob
Sullum (2/3)
Trial by
Ordeal: The surprising accuracy of the Dark Ages' trial by fire
rituals, by Radley
Balko (2/1)
Big
Government's Cronies: The real reason politicians like
complicated tax and regulatory schemes, by John
Stossel (2/4)
The
People's Historian?: Howard Zinn was a master of agitprop, not
history, by Michael C.
Moynihan (2/3)
Battering Down the Great Firewall of China: How the World Trade
Organization could open up Internet access in China,
by Ronald Bailey (2/2)


