Science
Reason magazine
Two Libertarianisms
Within the big tent, a divide over libertarianism’s limits
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April 2022
Reason magazine
Can We Fix San Francisco?
San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians
10+ min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Weather Is Not Climate. Or Is It?
Science
5 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Why Can't We Build Anything?
Future
6 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
THE BIG LABOR PRESIDENT
SCORES OF MILLIONS of Americans have zero memory of living under a White House of, by, and for Big Labor. So we are going to have to make new memories to accurately assess President Joe Biden.
5 min |
May 2022
Reason magazine
The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES’ NEW BOOK SIDESTEPS SCHOLARLY CRITICS WHILE QUIETLY DELETING PREVIOUS FACTUAL ERRORS.
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May 2022
Reason magazine
Some People Love a State of Crisis
Can’t we get back to some version of normal? That’s a fair question now that every American who wants a COVID-19 vaccine has had the opportunity to get one. But we still get breathless coverage of every variant and new rounds of travel restrictions, mask mandates, and vaccine document checks as if it were still the early days of the pandemic.
3 min |
March 2022
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Corruption and Crackdowns in California's Marijuana Market
Black markets thrive under mismanaged legalization.
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April 2022
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How Anti-Smut Activists Made ‘Louie, Louie' Famous
Censors wore out their welcome during the 20th Century’s indecency wars.
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March 2022
Reason magazine
The Destruction of Black Bottom
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit
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March 2022
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A Nation of Quitters?
Has America become a nation of quitters? It might seem so.
3 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Two Courts Debunk Persistent Opioid Myths
Since 2014, state and local governments have filed thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies they blame for causing the “opioid crisis” by exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks of prescription pain medication. The theory underlying these cases is pretty straightforward: Drug manufacturers lied, and people died.
2 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Two Years to Slow the Spread
Government can’t stop moving the Covid-19 goal posts.
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March 2022
Reason magazine
When Is Drinking Ayahuasca a Religious Experience?
Inside the vast apparatus of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), there’s a bureaucrat who is tasked with investigating the tenets of psychedelic churches. That improbable job figures in the legal troubles encountered by Arizona’s Vine of Light Church.
2 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Inflation Will Make Government Budget Problems Worse
"Recent comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy. Until recently, inflation was described as transitory. But at some point, that story has to change."
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
MASSACRE at FLOWERTOWN
2.5 MILLION DEAD BEES, AND AN UNLIKELY TEST OF PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS
10+ min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
IS HIGH INFLATION THE NEW NORMAL?
ECONOMICS
3 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
HOW THE WAR ON SPRAWL CAUSED HIGH HOUSING PRICES
REGULATION
5 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
How Robots Will Transform the 2020s
THE SERVICE BOT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WAREHOUSES, HOSPITALS, FARMS, AND MAYBE YOUR HOME.
9 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
China's Quest to Take Taiwan
Chinese officials have started directing citizens to stock up on food amid rising vegetable, egg, and pork prices. Encouraging people to become preppers could just be how the Chinese government expresses concern about cold snaps and potential future COVID-19 lockdowns. But some fear it’s a more sinister sign, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants people to prepare for the growing threat of war.
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
What Progressives Get Wrong About Judicial Review
IN FEBRUARY 1958, a distinguished liberal jurist named Learned Hand told a distinguished liberal audience some-thing that it did not want to hear. The U.S. Supreme Court’s celebrated power of judicial review, Hand declared in a lecture at Harvard Law School, was fundamentally illegitimate.
10 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
‘The Only Crime of Most of Us Was That We Were Uyghur Muslims'
Concentration camp survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun on her imprisonment and torture in China
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February 2022
Reason magazine
LIFE GETS BETTER FOR SPORTS BETTORS
BUT PLACING A WAGER ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM IS STILL TOO COMPLICATED IN MANY STATES.
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March 2022
Reason magazine
How To Talk About Racism
Linguist John McWhorter on the ways social justice activists have betrayed black Americans
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March 2022
Reason magazine
Closing Schools to Protect Kids Made Them Sick
NOT LONG AGO, parents spent time and energy worrying about contagious diseases other than COVID-19: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); hand, foot, and mouth disease; strep throat; and even the boring old flu. But the default standards for “safety” haphazardly narrowed and heightened as COVID-19 burst onto the scene. Lockdowns, school closures, and other restrictions substantially limited people’s access to each other.
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward
For a politician who’s never won anything, Andrew Yang is pretty famous. Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign failed to earn any delegates to the Democratic National Convention after getting about 5 percent in the Iowa caucuses and 3 percent in the New Hampshire primary. He came in fourth in New York City’s 2021 ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor. Despite his political struggles, Yang is now launching a new political party, the Forward Party.
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
Against Champagne Socialists
Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths.
10+ min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN
ALARMED BY UNILATERAL COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, STATES ARE IMPOSING NEW LIMITS ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. ERIC BOEHM
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February 2022
Reason magazine
WE KEEP GOING BACK TO THE MATRIX
HOW A GENERATION WAS REDPILLED BY A NERD POWER FANTASY ABOUT DEFINING YOURSELF IN THE DIGITAL AGE
10+ min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
Everything is Infrastructure Now
How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning
10+ min |