Reason magazine - May 2024
Reason magazine - May 2024
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In this issue
WHAT IF AMERICA RUNS OUT OF BOMBS? Due to overzealous interventionism, the U.S. is dispensing munitions faster
than they can be replaced.
HOW CAPITALISM BEAT COMMUNISM IN VIETNAM It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.
‘SMOKING OPIUM IS NOT OUR VICE’ America’s first drug war was driven by xenophobia against Chinese migrants.
THE LIBERTARIAN MIND OF DAVID BOAZ
Threats to freedom, Trump vs. Biden, and the wins libertarians can’t seem to acknowledge
10+ mins
DARE TO Fail
THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a universal millennial experience, but DARE comes close.
5 mins
CULTURE WARRIOR IN CHIEF
THE MODERN PRESIDENCY IS A DIVIDER, NOT A UNITER. IT HAS BECOME FAR TOO POWERFUL TO BE ANYTHING ELSE.
10+ mins
Progress, Rediscovered
A NEW MOVEMENT PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S PROBLEMS EMERGES.
10+ mins
'Smoking Opium Is Not Our Vice'
AMERICA’S FIRST DRUG WAR WAS DRIVEN BY XENOPHOBIA AGAINST CHINESE MIGRANTS.
10+ mins
HOW CAPITALISM BEAT COMMUNISM IN VIETNAM
IT ONLY TOOK A GENERATION TO GO FROM RATION CARDS TO EXPORTING ELECTRONICS.
10+ mins
50 Years of D&D: You Can't Copyright Fun
THIS YEAR MARKS the 50th anniversary of the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the granddaddy of tabletop role-playing games and one of the urtexts of nerd culture.
4 mins
The Pupil Panopticon
BIG BROTHER—and Parent, and Teacher— are watching.
5 mins
Congress Could Swipe Your Credit Reward Points
A PLOT TO kill credit card reward points has bipartisan buy-in, with lawmakers framing the effort as an attempt to curb stillstubborn inflation.
2 mins
Regulators Killed a Lifeline for Roombas
IN JANUARY 2024, Amazon terminated its agreement to acquire iRobot, the company that manufactures the Roomba robot vacuum.
2 mins
Are U.S. Strikes on Houthis Constitutional?
SINCE JANUARY, THE United States and its allies have been conducting strikes against the Houthis, a Yemen-based Islamist militant organization that has been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.
2 mins
WHAT IF AMERICA RUNS OUT OF BOMBS?
DUE TO OVERZEALOUS INTERVENTIONISM, THE U.S. 1S DISPENSING MUNITIONS FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE REPLACED.
10+ mins
All the Sad Young Things
Maybe the problem for teens isn’t screens, but what they are replacing.
10+ mins
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
The beginning of Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in the 70-year series of kaiju flicks made by the Japanese production company Toho, upends one part of the usual formula: Tokyo is already a smoldering wasteland.
1 min
Predictably, No Progress on Global Emissions
EIGHT YEARS AFTER the Paris climate agreement, where do we stand on global emissions? The title of a new United Nations Environment Programme report sums the situation up: Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again).
2 mins
Feds Make a Pharma Patent Grab
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION may take redistribution to new extremes if a policy revision floated in December comes to fruition. The White House wants to give federal agencies the right to seize some pharmaceutical patents when they deem drug prices too high.
2 mins
Claudine Gay's Defenders Shoot the Messenger
CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNED as president of Harvard University in January, following numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. But in some corners of the media, the fact that she committed plagiarism mattered much less than the fact that it was conservative writers who caught her.
2 mins
Sheriff 'Floored and Shocked' by Deputies' Brutality
\"I'M JUST FLOORED and shocked,\" Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey said last August after five of his former deputies admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two men during an unlawful home invasion the previous January.
2 mins
Big Brother in the Driver's Seat
IF YOU'VE SEARCHED online about buying a car, you know you're in for a wave of aggressive come-ons and sales pitches. But I found a way to make car sellers clam up: All you have to do is start asking questions about the increasingly intrusive \"nanny\" nature of automobiles.
3 mins
Ski Jump Snow Job
IN 1994, COPPER Peak, a ski-flying hill located in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hosted its last ski-jumping competition-or so it thought.
2 mins
COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court
SOME 270 MILLION Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions.
2 mins
The Life and Death of a Company Town
MORE THAN A century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same work. They also enjoyed many appealing amenities, from high-quality homes to a three-story YMCA.
2 mins
Creating Our Own Simulations
FOR RENÉ DESCARTES, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the founding fathers of behaviorism, minds were identical with behaviors-talking, habits, dispositions to act in one way or another. More recently, minds have been imagined as a kind of computer: the software running on the hardware of the brain.
5 mins
The Revolting Mr. Taxpayer
THOUGH ANIMUS TOWARD tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax revolts, much like the history of mutual aid or of nonunion workers during strikes, cannot easily be subsumed under the most popular analytical categories, such as economic class. So Linda Upham-Bornstein's \"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender\": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression is a welcome sign.
5 mins
REEXAMINING THE REALIGNMENT
CAN FREE MARKETS WIN VOTES IN THE NEW GOP?
10+ mins
Indonesia's Free Market 'Superblocks'
YOU DON’T NEED CENTRAL PLANNERS TO GET PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN.
7 mins
THE LAST LIBERAL
Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech
10+ mins
THE REAL STUDENT LOAN CRISIS
MISLED BY A BAD LAW, GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DROWNING IN DEBT.
10+ mins
The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics
BIDEN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GAVE US THREE YEARS OF EXCESSIVE, WASTEFUL, AND POORLY TARGETED FEDERAL SPENDING.
10+ mins
'I Knew They Were Scumbags'
How federal prison guards confessed to rape-and got away with it
8 mins
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