Science
Reason magazine
SPACE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK PROPERTY RIGHTS
HERE'S WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN JOHN LOCKE AND HENRY GEORGE GO TO THE MOON.
10 min |
December 2022
Reason magazine
THE MILITARY-UFO COMPLEX
HOW A MOTLEY CREW OF SAUCER HUNTERS GOT A PLACE AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH
9 min |
December 2022
Reason magazine
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.
10+ min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
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.
5 min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
Workers Are Consumers Too
Since Taking Office, President Joe Biden has sought to position himself as an ally of working Americans. His administration is enacting what it calls a “worker-centric” trade policy, and the president scarcely seems to give a public address without mentioning the importance of union jobs.
3 min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
The Dangerous Lesson of Book Bans in Public School Libraries
An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
We Have a Printing Paper Problem
A new supply chain parable for our times
6 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Grow Your Own
Always a good hobby, gardening is also a hedge against supply disruptions.
3 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Digital Immortality or Deathbot?
Would you want your persona to live forever in the metaverse after your physical body shuffles off this mortal coil? That is what the metaverse platform Somnium Space plans to offer its users, starting in the next year or so, with its Live Forever service.
2 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
INTERNET SEARCH IS BETTER THAN EVER IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT
IN FEBRUARY, THE software engineer and blogger Dmitri Brereton wrote an essay titled “Google Search Is Dying” for his personal website.
3 min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
INFLATION WON’T WHIP ITSELF
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT GERALD Ford was simultaneously one of the luckiest and unluckiest presidents when he took office in 1974.
3 min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
Glenn Greenwald on Corporate Media and Identity Politics
LAWYER-TURNED-JOURNALIST Glenn Greenwald’s work with whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal illegal government surveillance won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. That same year he helped launch The Intercept, but he abruptly resigned six years later after a disagreement over editorial policy. In July, Reason’s Nick Gillespie spoke with Greenwald at FreedomFest 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2 min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
GOODBYE, GLOBALIZATION?
AS AMERICAN POLITICIANS TURN AGAINST ECONOMIC OPENNESS, HISTORY SUGGESTS THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DIRE.
10+ min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING
WHY ARE ACTIVISTS TRYING TO STOP RESEARCH INTO A PROMISING BACKUP PLAN TO HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE?
10+ min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS
THE FBI’S LONG HISTORY OF USING INFORMANTS AND MANUFACTURED PLOTS TO PROSECUTE EXTREMISTS
10+ min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE
THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN POLITICS ISN'T POLARIZATIONIT'S RISING ILLIBERALISM.
10+ min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan
As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Who Controls What Books You Can Read?
Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue
5 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries
Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.
7 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Biden Comforts the Comfortable
DURING HIS CAMPAIGN for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would be to help the struggling American middle class.
3 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Rise of the Sensitivity Reader
Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Desantis Vs. Disney
Ron Desantis, Florida's Republican governor, has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.
2 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
After Uvalde, Irrelevant Gun Control Proposals
The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults, happened just 10 days after a gunman murdered 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
5 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
The Weird World of Watergate
Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.
10+ min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine
Explanations for Russia's 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine.
4 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
CIVIL LIBERTIES: A JUDGE SAYS SHAKEN-BABY CASES RELY ON 'JUNK SCIENCE'
AFTER HIS 11-MONTH-OLD son showed signs of neurological damage in 2017, Darryl Nieves was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
2 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
IMMIGRATION: THE BORDER LEGACY OF TITLE 42 EXPULSIONS
WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden announced in April that he would not extend a controversial public health order that allowed U.S. immigration officials to expel migrants, many on the right criticized the move as premature or misguided. But the order has actually made the border less secure.
2 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
London Libel Lawsuits Punish Truth Tellers
THE U.S. SHOULDN'T IMPORT BRITISH DEFAMATION LAW, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DONALD TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Little Libraries, Free at Last?
GOOD NEWS FOR FANS OF LITERACY AND OPPONENTS OF RESTRICTIVE ZONING CODES
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint
Imagine a Federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can still experience many ways of life different from their own."
3 min |