China's Quest to Take Taiwan

Chinese officials have started directing citizens to stock up on food amid rising vegetable, egg, and pork prices. Encouraging people to become preppers could just be how the Chinese government expresses concern about cold snaps and potential future COVID-19 lockdowns. But some fear it’s a more sinister sign, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants people to prepare for the growing threat of war.

What Progressives Get Wrong About Judicial Review

IN FEBRUARY 1958, a distinguished liberal jurist named Learned Hand told a distinguished liberal audience some-thing that it did not want to hear. The U.S. Supreme Court’s celebrated power of judicial review, Hand declared in a lecture at Harvard Law School, was fundamentally illegitimate.

LIFE GETS BETTER FOR SPORTS BETTORS

BUT PLACING A WAGER ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM IS STILL TOO COMPLICATED IN MANY STATES.

Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward

For a politician who’s never won anything, Andrew Yang is pretty famous. Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign failed to earn any delegates to the Democratic National Convention after getting about 5 percent in the Iowa caucuses and 3 percent in the New Hampshire primary. He came in fourth in New York City’s 2021 ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor. Despite his political struggles, Yang is now launching a new political party, the Forward Party.

THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN

ALARMED BY UNILATERAL COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, STATES ARE IMPOSING NEW LIMITS ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. ERIC BOEHM

WE KEEP GOING BACK TO THE MATRIX

HOW A GENERATION WAS REDPILLED BY A NERD POWER FANTASY ABOUT DEFINING YOURSELF IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Everything is Infrastructure Now

How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning

Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate

The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.

Cashed Out

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?

Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt

The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.

Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster

Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything

Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword

Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.

LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY

FUTURE

LEAVING AFGHANISTAN

WORLD

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.

Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?

“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”

What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like

Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.

Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke

A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.

Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech

IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”

Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?

WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.

There's Nothing Modern About MMT

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.

When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse

Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.

Cult Country

Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?

‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers

“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.

The Conversion of Thomas Sowell

IT WASN’T UNTIL HIS THIRTIES THAT THE ECONOMIST STARTED TO TURN FROM MARXISM.

Wartime Rationing Changed How America Ate for a Century. The Pandemic Will Do the Same.

The government tried to stabilize the Nation’s food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.

Coming Out Of The Chemical Closet

Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Clings To His Pedestal

A year ago, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a pandemic hero.

Why We (Still) Shouldn't Censor Misinformation

Trump’s loss in 2020, a majority of his supporters believed the election had been rigged. Some adopted wild conspiracy theories involving Chinese supercomputers, Hugo Chavez, and state-level Republican officials. These beliefs culminated in an attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead. To make sense of these events, many officials have argued that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter allowed conspiracy theories to spread unimpeded, leading to erroneous beliefs and deadly behaviors. In other words, they blame misinformation for the violence.