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Reason magazine
Inside an Abusive Anti-Porn Camp for Teens
WHY ARE WE SENDING KIDS INTO THE WILDERNESS TO STOP THEM FROM LOOKING AT PORNOGRAPHY?
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Reason magazine
GET YOUR POLITICS OUT OF MY PICKLEBALL
FAULT LINES EMERGE AS GOVERNMENT GETS INVOLVED IN AMERICA’S WEIRDEST, FASTEST-GROWING SPORT
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August/September 2023
Reason magazine
'Excited Delirium' is No Excuse for Police Abuse
A small change in wording by medical examiners could have a big impact on how deaths in police custody are reported. In March, the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) said “excited delirium” should not be cited as a cause of death.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
TikTok Goes From Silly to Serious
“Most sectors of the economy are a conspiracy between the big incumbents and their punitive regulators,” venture capitalist and software engineer Marc Andreessen tells Reason this month (page 48). Asked to identify pockets of relative freedom and competition, he offers what he calls “the cynical answer”: There’s still innovation “in the spaces that don’t matter. Anybody can bring a new toy to market. Anybody can open a restaurant.”
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June 2023
Reason magazine
A Successful Challenge to a Ban on 'aiding and Abetting' Abortion
When the city of Lebanon banned abortion in 2021, it initially seemed like a pointless stunt.
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May 2023
Reason magazine
IS ENCOURAGING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION?
FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for private financial gain. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case, United States v. Hansen, that asks whether that law unconstitutionally abridges freedom of speech.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
DON'T 'PAUSE' A.I. RESEARCH
HUMAN BEINGS ARE terrible at foresight— especially apocalyptic foresight. The track record of previous doomsayers is worth recalling as we contemplate warnings from critics of artificial intelligence (A.I.) research.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
POPPY SEEDS TRIGGER CHILD NEGLECT INVESTIGATIONS
BEFORE KATE L. gave birth to a baby girl last September, a nurse at New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center collected a urine sample from the soon-to-be mother.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
TRUMP'S NEW YORK INDICTMENT IS JUST THE BEGINNING
WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT Donald Trump arrived at a Manhattan courthouse on April 4, crowds of people and rows of TV cameras were there to witness an unprecedented moment: the first-ever arraignment of a former U.S. president. How quickly can something this important be relegated to the footnotes of American presidential history? We may be about to find out.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
BOMBING MEXICAN CARTELS WON'T STOP FENTANYL
AMERICANS CONTINUE TO overdose on illicit fentanyl despite increased seizures of the drug coming north from Mexico.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
THE GREAT EGG SHOCK
AS INFLATION RAISED prices on all manner of goods throughout 2022, eggs earned special attention. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average price of a dozen eggs in urban areas rose from $1.92 in January 2022 to $4.82 in January 2023.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
THE NEW RIGHT ISN'T SO NEW
IN THE CLOSING weeks of 1969, a debate broke out in the pages of National Review about how American conservatives should respond to the threat posed by the New Left—the expanded universe of socialists, civil rights activists, anti-war protesters, feminists, environmentalists, and other lefty radicals then making political waves. Fifteen months earlier, police and demonstrators had met in a bloody clash outside the Democratic National Convention.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
Flo Crivello Says A.I. Will Be Bigger Than the Internet
Flo Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, a software company that has created an executive assistant powered by artificial intelligence (A.I.). Lindy can take care of your calendar, perform basic email correspondence, book travel, and take notes during meetings. The long-run goal is to automate as much work as possible and free up time for tasks that only humans can do.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
Adam Smith's Sly American Proposal
SOMETIMES A PROPOSAL IS A LESSON IN DISGUISE.
10 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Marketplaces Find a Way
THOUGH HISTORY HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN KIND, BUTCHERS, BREWERS, AND BAKERS STILL THRIVE AT URBAN MARKETS.
8 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Adam Smith's Quiet Christianity
THE SCOTTISH THINKER’S FAMOUS FRIENDSHIP WITH DAVID HUME DEMONSTRATES HIS LIBERALISM, NOT HIS ATHEISM.
8 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other
THE THINKER’S VIEWS OF HUMAN SYMPATHY, BENEFICENCE, JUSTICE, AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR STILL RESONATE.
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July 2023
Reason magazine
GADGETS AND GIZMOS THAT INSPIRED ADAM SMITH
MEDITATIONS ON THE DANGEROUS, ALLURING BEAUTY OF INTRICATE SYSTEMS
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July 2023
Reason magazine
Why America Needs To Be 'Open to Debate
Clea Conner on the need for healthy conflict
10+ min |
May 2023
Reason magazine
Proposition: Cats Are More Libertarian Than Dogs
Cats, like libertarians, think for themselves.
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May 2023
Reason magazine
FAILING TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY MEANS MANDATORY CUTS
WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden sparred with Republicans during his State of the Union address in February, he vowed to veto any attempt at cutting Social Security benefits. Yet the budget proposal he unveiled in March lacked a plan to avert the mandatory Social Security benefit cuts that are quickly approaching.
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June 2023
Reason magazine
THE BIOMEDICAL TESTING REVOLUTION
“CANCER SIGNAL NOT detected.” That was the happy finding of my Galleri multicancer early detection (MCED) blood test from the Silicon Valley biotech company GRAIL. The Galleri test presages an emerging wave of new precision biomedical tests produced by a panoply of biotech startups.
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June 2023
Reason magazine
Diana Alvarez Knows She's 'Doing the Right Thing' Running a D.C. Smoke Shop
Diana Alvarez’s son always wanted to go to college, so she started working in a smoke shop to earn some extra cash.
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June 2023
Reason magazine
Fighting the Feds in the American South
JEFFERSON COWIE IS a prodigious researcher who often shows sensitivity to historical complexities, and his narrative skills shine. The Vanderbilt historian’s latest book, Freedom’s Dominion, is readable and often provocative. But it superimposes a dubious thesis about Southern his tory over the facts, arguing that “land dispossession, slavery, power, and oppression do not stand in contrast to freedom— they are expressions of it.”
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June 2023
Reason magazine
Who Owns Your Brain Data?
WE ARE RAPIDLY heading toward a world of brain transparency, in which scientists, doctors, governments, and companies may peer into our brains and minds at will,” Duke University bioethicist Nita A. Farahany declares in The Battle for Your Brain. As a defense against this neuro surveillance, her timely book argues for a right to cognitive liberty that includes “mental privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination”—a right that allows us to track and hack our own brains but bars us from trespassing on other minds.
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June 2023
Reason magazine
MARC ANDREESSEN ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE
Is the A.I. breakthrough for real this time?
10+ min |
June 2023
Reason magazine
ZEROT AMERICA
SECRECY IS THE DEGRADED CURRENCY OF THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT.
10 min |
June 2023
Reason magazine
The Most Hated Person on Campus
HOW A SHAKY ALLEGATION IGNITED A FRENZY AND DESTROYED A YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE
10+ min |
June 2023
Reason magazine
WILL 2024 BRING THE RETURN OF THE NEOCONS?
THE GOP NOMINEE CAN FORGE A HUMBLER PATHOR TURN BACK TO FAILED NEOCONSERVATISM.
10+ min |
June 2023
Reason magazine
THE LEFT-RIGHT SPECTRUM IS MOSTLY MEANINGLESS
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE DOESN'T FIT ON A SIMPLE MAP.
10+ min |