Science
Reason magazine
When The Government Declared War On The First Amendment
When The Government Declared War On The First Amendment
3 min |
October 2017
Reason magazine
Interview: Kennedy
The TV host and one-name celeb talks about cherry vodka, teenage rebellion, Frank Zappa, free-range parenting, and life as Fox’s token libertarian.
10+ min |
October 2017
Reason magazine
Education
Teachers Union Head Casts School Choice As Racism.
2 min |
October 2017
Reason magazine
The Libertarian Party Future, Perennially Out Of Reach
Where does political libertarianism go after the midterms?
5 min |
January 2019
Reason magazine
D.C. Vs. The Wide Open West
ONE OF THE great ironies of life in mountain and desert states is that many of the people you meet are either escapees or descendants of the East Coast—but they ended up in a place where Washington, D.C., has an enormous presence.
3 min |
January 2019
Reason magazine
The New Socialists Didn't Win
But they’re still in charge for the next couple of years.
5 min |
January 2019
Reason magazine
How We Childproofed Our Cities
Kid-friendly spaces make it harder to grow up.
4 min |
February 2019
Reason magazine
Banned In Cannes
Perched on France’s southern coast, Cannes is famous for its luxurious beaches.
1 min |
November 2016
Reason magazine
Guitar Globalization
Ex–Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.
4 min |
November 2016
Reason magazine
Hollywood Takes On Fan Fiction
A Star Trek lover’s new film is making the studios unhappy.
3 min |
November 2016
Reason magazine
Free Brazil!
Meet the millennial libertarian activists who helped bring down a president.
10+ min |
November 2016
Reason magazine
Charlottesville And The Perils Of Collectivism
PETER CVJETANOVIC STANDS in a sea of tiki torches, his mouth wide open, teeth partially bared. You can almost hear the snarling scream from the photograph.
3 min |
November 2017
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Government Created The Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
5 min |
November 2017
Reason magazine
Your Flight Is Delayed
THE FRENZIED BATTLE TO REFORM AMERICAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
10+ min |
November 2017
Reason magazine
Trump Just Can't Quit Afghanistan
IMAGINE BEING A U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of increasingly pointless war.
3 min |
July 2019
Reason magazine
World South Africa Goes Halfway On Pot
JOHANNESBURG’S WORST-KEPT SECRET looks like any other suburban bar, with a bartender who has nothing unusual to offer.
3 min |
July 2019
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Oh Deer
30 Million of Bambi’s Buddies Are on the Loose in the U.s., Causing Crop Damage and Car Accidents. Markets Can Help.
8 min |
July 2019
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Reason Once Tried To Predict The Future. How Did We Do?
IT WAS MAY 1993. Barely two years earlier, a failed coup attempt had marked the last gasp of Soviet Communism. The Cold War was over. Germany was reunified. The Baltic countries were independent. In the former Yugoslavia, Sarajevo was under siege.
6 min |
December 2018
Reason magazine
The Next Big Fight Over Organized Labor May Already Be Here
JUNE’S SUPREME COURT ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) freed public sector workers from being required to pay dues to unions to which
2 min |
December 2018
Reason magazine
We Live In A World Of Reliable Miracles
When I’m having a bad day, I trawl the internet for videos of happy cyborgs.
4 min |
August - September 2019
Reason magazine
What Politicians Must Do When Protesters Attack
Learning from Robert McNamara’s mistakes and magnanimity.
5 min |
March 2019
Reason magazine
When Playboy Made It Big
PLAYBOY MAGAZINE USED to be the contraband men of all ages hid in their sock drawers.
4 min |
April 2017
Reason magazine
The Slants - The Band Who Must Not Be Named
Bassist Simon Tam talks about his band’s Supreme Court fight to trademark its controversial name.
10+ min |
April 2017
Reason magazine
Christians Started the Wedding Wars
Defenders of traditional marriage used the law to persecute polygamists. Now they’re the ones under attack.
10+ min |
April 2017
Reason magazine
Gorsuch's Record Was More liberal Than Kennedy's This Term
HERE’S A CURIOUS fact about the U.S. Supreme Court term that concluded in June: Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch racked up a more “liberal” voting record than Justice Anthony Kennedy.
3 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
Dear Immigration Restrictionists: Milton Friedman Was Not On Your Side
THE LATE NOBEL Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman was a free market libertarian who believed that immigrants helped make America great.
5 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
Grandparents In The Gulag
DEBRA CUPP, 60, stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on a hot day in July holding a handmade sign: “Ron Cupp died waiting on compassionate release, Jan. 3, 2017.”
2 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
The Tribe Of Liberty
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wonders how to save civilization in his new book, Suicide of the West.
10+ min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
Meet The Good Soldier Svejk, Patron Saint Of Malingerers And Saboteurs
A 1920s-era Novel Sheds Light on Eastern European Anti-authoritarianism.
8 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling At The Border. Legalization Will.
Pot is bulky and pungent.
10+ min |