Stop Spazzing Out About 'Spaz'

SOCIAL MEDIA, STREAMING, AND A NEW ERA OF DIGITAL SELF-CENSORSHIP

JOHN CLEESE ON HOW WOKENESS SMOTHERS CREATIVITY

IN A CAREER that has spanned seven decades—and included such classic shows and movies as Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Life of Brian, and A Fish Called Wanda—the comedian John Cleese has relentlessly satirized politics and religion while stretching the boundaries of decorum and good taste.

D.C. METRO GOES OFF THE RAILS

PUTTING WASHINGTON’S TRAIN SYSTEM BACK ON TRACK WILL TAKE MORE THAN BETTER BUREAUCRACY.

GOVERNMENTS SCRAMBLE TO MANAGE REGULATE, AND THROTTLE CRYPTO

MOST DANGEROUSLY OF ALL, THEY'RE STARTING TO MAKE THEIR OWN CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES.

PROSECUTORS SHOULDN'T BE ABOVE THE LAW

BY GIVING POWERFUL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY, THE SUPREME COURT LEAVES THEIR VICTIMS WITH NO RECOURSE.

PUERTO RICO INCHES TOWARD SELF-DETERMINATION

REP. RAÚL GRIJALVA (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, was pissed. The prominent progressive had just left a July 26 committee meeting on the Puerto Rico Status Act, a legislative compromise negotiated by the territory's nonvoting House member, Rep. Jenniffer GonzálezColón of the New Progressive Party (PNP).

RELIGION: AGAINST GAME OF THRONES CHRISTIANITY

FOR MANY MEMBERS of the so-called New Right, one thing is clear: Classical liberal principles are not getting the job done.

HIGHER COSTS FOR HIGHER ED

WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden announced in August that he was canceling thousands of dollars in student loan debt for most current borrowers, he explained that his plan was partly a response to the rapid rise in the cost of higher education.

ONE FOOT OFF THE GRID

WHEN OUR WATER was turned off one morning last January, we assumed it was due to the sinkhole slowly expanding across the width of our single-lane street in South Philadelphia. But we could only guess, as no one answered the phone at the Philadelphia Water Department, and the first city employee didn't show up on our street until four hours after the taps died. When one of my elderly neighbors asked how long it would take to restore service, the city guy said his crews were swamped. It took 27 hours.

THE NEW DEAL AND A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN

THE U.S. SUPREME Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, has raised the possibility of a future Republican-controlled Congress seeking to ban abortion nationwide. If that happens, the resulting courtroom battles will likely center on a New Deal-era precedent that vastly expanded the scope of congressional power.

THE LABOR MARKET IS BROKEN

INFLATION IS UP. The stock market is down. Unemployment is just 3.5 percent. Yet labor force participation remains stubbornly low, with only 62.3 percent of the civilian population working or actively looking for work-well below pre-pandemic levels. And even before the pandemic, that figure had been steadily declining for years.

We Are Living Robert Heinlein's Dream

A new generation of companies has made space travel affordable.

We Are Going to the Moon

Thanks to the rise of private spaceflight companies, mankind will have a future off-earth.

The Case for Space Billionaires

What critics of the private space race get wrong

If You Want to Get High in Space

After SpaceX founder Elon Musk smoked a blunt on Joe Rogan's podcast in 2018, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was happy to cut him some slack. "Let the man get high if he wants to get high," Tyson told TMZ. "He's the best thing we've had since Thomas Edison."

America's Other Space Agency

How the FCC went from regulating telegraphs to regulating satellites

The Twin Crusades Against Drugs and Guns

Americans are suffering the "unjust, cruel, and even irrational" consequences of the wars on intoxicants and firearms.

American Elections Are a Mess, and They Always Have Been

The long, weird history of partisan electoral shenanigans

Qatar's World Cup Cruelty

Qatar’s bid to boost its global standing by hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup is hardly unprecedented.

Finance for Teens

Our homeschooling family didn’t sign up for this class, but there’s lots to learn from economic turmoil.

'This is Bigger Than Basketball'

Enes Kanter Freedom on China, the NBA, and free speech

It's Been 50 Years Since Humans Walked on the Moon

We were supposed to go back to the moon last week. We were also supposed to go back five weeks before that in mid-September, and six months before that.

TERRAFORM THE GALAXY

SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHERS and environmentalist thinkers argue that terraforming Mars and other planets, making them suitable for humans and other Earth life, would be immoral. As we near a day when terraforming is actually possible, the arguments against it are worth reviewing and rebutting.

ARE WE STILL AWED BY THE HEAVENS?

IS SPACE MORE awesome than ever, now that we've walked on the moon and beheld the stunning photos transmitted by the James Webb telescope? Or is the night sky, thanks to modernity, more meh? In particular, do kids find the universe more meh than the metaverse?

THE FRACTAL, FRACTIOUS POLITICS OF THE EXPANSE

TAKING HUMANITY FROM EARTH TO THE STARS ISN'T EASY.

FROM SPACE REGULATOR TO ASTRONAUT

George Nield spent his government career thinking about space. Then he got to fly.

SPACE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK PROPERTY RIGHTS

HERE'S WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN JOHN LOCKE AND HENRY GEORGE GO TO THE MOON.

THE MILITARY-UFO COMPLEX

HOW A MOTLEY CREW OF SAUCER HUNTERS GOT A PLACE AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH

What Wikipedia Can Teach the Rest of the Internet

Jimmy Wales talks about why his online encyclopedia works, how to improve social media, and why Section 230 isn’t the real problem with the internet.

The New Abortion Prohibition Era

Americans disagree about abortion. This is the understatement of 2022, yet it bears repeating in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the June Supreme Court decision that returned abortion policy to state and federal legislatures. Ten states have already banned abortion and another four have prohibited abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which amounts to nearly the same thing.