Science
Reason magazine
Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword
Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
6 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY
FUTURE
7 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
WORLD
3 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.
9 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
6 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
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.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
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.”
10 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Autonomous Mexico
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
6 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech
Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
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.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.
3 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
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.”
4 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
There's Nothing Modern About MMT
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.
5 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
An $86 Billion Moral Hazard
The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.
3 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Pandemic Will Make Kids Or Break Them
The COVID-19 era has worked as a stress test for parents and kids alike, breaking some while bringing out reserves of strength and resilience in others.
3 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
Cult Country
Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
‘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.
2 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Last Pandemic
Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like Covid-19.
10+ min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed Of The Counterculture'
A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Conversion of Thomas Sowell
IT WASN’T UNTIL HIS THIRTIES THAT THE ECONOMIST STARTED TO TURN FROM MARXISM.
10 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
10+ min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
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.
10+ min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
Coming Out Of The Chemical Closet
Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong.
10+ min |