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In this issue

REPUBLICAN SOCIALISM
The Trump administration is buying stakes in companies. That never ends well.
ERIC BOEHM

WHAT WOULD BILL BUCKLEY DO?
The National Review founder’s flexible approach to politics defined conservatism as we know it.
STEPHANIE SLADE

TRUMP IS DEPORTING ENTREPRENEURS
The Trump administration’s mass deportation effort is robbing the U.S. of immigrant business owners and their contributions.
FIONA HARRIGAN

To the Socialists of All Parties

REASON HAS A rule against starting essays with quotes from Friedrich Hayek. After all, one could start nearly every essay in this magazine with a bon mot from the Austrian-born economist and classical liberal hero. But sometimes things get bad enough that only a Hayek quote will do.

4 mins

Ayn Rand Denounced FCC Censorship 60 Years Ago

AFTER JIMMY KIMMEL delivered a misinformed monologue about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr pressured broadcast channels to take the comedian off the air. Carr faced immediate pushback: Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania all chastised Carr for trying to use his position to steer private companies' editorial decisions—a serious breach of free speech principles.

2 mins

Gun Groups Oppose Trans Firearm Ban

MULTIPLE NEWS OUTLETS reported in September 2025 that the Justice Department was weighing a ban on gun possession by transgender people, on the theory that they are \"mentally ill\" and therefore \"unstable.\" That constitutionally dubious proposal provoked objections from gun rights groups that typically align with the Trump administration, including the National Rifle Association (NRA).

2 mins

Plastic Pollution to Practical Power

A RECENT INNOVATION could make it easier to transform plastic waste into usable products.

2 mins

Bail Wars Are Back

THE LONG NATIONAL debate over cash bail reignited in summer 2025 after the White House issued an executive order in August threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless bail.

2 mins

Discord Revolution in the Himalayas

THEY MARCHED TO defend free speech online and ended up reshaping a nation. In September 2025, young protesters opposing Nepal's social media ban triggered a political upheaval that brought Sushila Karki to power as the country's first woman prime minister—with much of the organizing happening on the messaging platform Discord.

3 mins

Work From Home, Have More Kids

PRONATALISTS PUSH ALL manner of big-government schemes aimed at raising fertility rates. But could a more modest—and more market-oriented—policy prove better at boosting births? Research suggests that more remote work leads to larger families.

3 mins

DHS Brings an Ugly Past Back to the Surface

WHEN THE U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a single word—remigrate—on X in October 2025, it wasn't a vague message. A once neutral term dating back to the 17th century, meaning “to migrate back” or “to return,” remigration has evolved into a euphemism for forced deportation under the guise of policy. A government agency invoking it naturally sparked debate about this historically fraught concept.

1 mins

Q&A Jeff Flake

IN 2017, SEN. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced he wouldn't seek reelection. He told his colleagues that \"we must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal.\"

3 mins

What Would a $100,000 H-1B Fee Do?

IN DECEMBER 2024, a battle erupted between the tech right and the nativist right over the H-1B visa program, which allows American employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields. When President-elect Donald Trump weighed in, he threw his support behind H-1B defenders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. “I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” he told the New York Post. “I've been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times.”

2 mins

A Taste of Capitalism in Warsaw

WARSAW, POLAND, IS a living museum of economic systems. It's a city where concrete reliefs of stoic factory workers decorate a building that now houses a Kentucky Fried Chicken, where a Soviet-era apartment block stands beside a glass tower filled with coworking spaces.

2 mins

MAHA Mandates Food Labels

BURDENSOME FOOD LABELING mandates were once the province of Democrats, who pushed for calorie count requirements on restaurant menus and insisted packaged food must feature warnings about genet- ically modified ingredients and trans fats. Now it's Republicans leading the charge- with equally foolish results.

2 mins

Trump's Tariffs Fail Their Own Test

HOW SHOULD WE assess whether President Donald Trump's tariffs have been effective?

3 mins

REPUBLICAN SOCIALISM

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS BUYING STAKES IN COMPANIES. THAT NEVER ENDS WELL.

10+ mins

What Would Bill Buckley Do?

THE NATIONAL REVIEW FOUNDER'S FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO POLITICS DEFINED CONSERVATISM AS WE KNOW IT.

7 mins

TRUMP IS DEPORTING ENTREPRENEURS

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S MASS DEPORTATION EFFORT IS ROBBING THE U.S. OF IMMIGRANT BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.

9 mins

IS JAKE TAPPER DOOMED?

THE CNN ANCHOR ON THE WAR ON TERROR, THREATS TO FREE SPEECH, AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA

10+ mins

The First Information Revolution

PRINTING PRESSES AND LIBRARIANS INTERPRETED CENSORSHIP AS DAMAGE AND ROUTED AROUND IT.

10+ mins

THE HOWARD ROARK OF COMICS

SPIDER-MAN CO-CREATOR STEVE DITKO WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF, AND DIRE WARNING TO, OBJECTIVIST POP ARTISTS.

10+ mins

A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites

IF YOU WERE looking for a human avatar of America's unipolar moment, you couldn't do better than Michael McFaul. Picture a youthful, energetic McFaul with a newly minted Ph.D. bounding into the suddenly post-Soviet space of the early 1990s, full of bright ideas about democracy and faith in the end of history. As McFaul himself puts it, 1991 \"was a glorious moment to be a democratic, liberal, capitalist, multilateralist, and American....I was treated like a rockstar.\"

4 mins

Robert Crumb's Roving Art and Life

IN THE SPRING of 1962, an 18-year-old Robert Crumb was beaned in the forehead by a solid glass ashtray. His mother, Bea, had hurled it at his father, Chuck, who ducked. Robert was bloodied and dazed, once again a silent and enraged witness to his family's chaos.”

5 mins

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Publisher: Reason

Category: News

Language: English

Frequency: Monthly

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