Science
Reason magazine
Storks Don't Take Orders From the State
FALLING BIRTHRATES, PRO-NATALIST POLICIES, AND THE LIMITS OF POPULATION CONTROL
10+ min |
June 2023
Reason magazine
Where's Your Adderall?
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, prescriptions for Adderall, the stimulant medication used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), skyrocketed.
2 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
A.I. Is Here
ChatGPT can create everything from novel dad jokes to fairly well-written computer code. At my prompting, it wrote a serviceable sonnet describing Gilgamesh’s failed quest for immortality.
3 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
THE EXPENSIVE SEDUCTIVE NOSTALGIA OF FIELD OF DREAMS
WHY ARE SO MANY FILMGOERS AND POLITICIANS EAGER TO PROP UP BASEBALL'S BOONDOGGLES?
10+ min |
May 2023
Reason magazine
PUBLIC UNIONS VS.THE PUBLIC GOOD
ELECTED LEADERS COME AND GO, BUT PUBLIC UNIONS JUST SAY NO.
10+ min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: BE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE WORLD
AFFIRMATIVE: Optimism Is the Rational Approach
4 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: BITCOIN IS THE FUTURE! OF FREE EXCHANGE
AFFIRMATIVE: Bitcoin Is an Effective Tool for Liberty
7 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: MENTALLY ILL HOMELESS PEOPLE MUST BE LOCKED UP FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
AFFIRMATIVE: Choosing the Streets Over Shelters Is Dangerous for Everyone
6 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: THE U.S. SHOULD INCREASE FUNDING FOR THE DEFENSE OF UKRAINE
AFFIRMATIVE: Ukraine's Liberal Democracy Deserves Our Aid
5 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: THE E.U. WAS A MISTAKE
AFFIRMATIVE: Small States Are Best, and the E.U. Is Huge
6 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: TO PRESERVE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, GOVERNMENT MUST AFFIRMATIVELY INTERVENE IN THE CULTURE WAR
AFFIRMATIVE: You May Not Be Interested in the Culture War, But the Culture War Is Interested in You
9 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: DEMOCRACY IS THE WORST FORM OF GOVERNMENT EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHERS
AFFIRMATIVE: When We Are Governed, Ballots Are Best
6 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SHOULD BE REGULATED
AFFIRMATIVE: Don't Trust Governments With A.I. Facial Recognition Technology
7 min |
May 2023
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PROPOSITION: IT'S TIME FOR A NATIONAL DIVORCE
AFFIRMATIVE: A National Divorce Is an Opportunity for Peaceful Coexistence
9 min |
May 2023
Reason magazine
DEBATE IS FOR THE COOL KIDS
\"STUDIES SHOW THAT debate is good for you\" is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect someone in an ill-fitting blazer and awkward shoes to say at a high school debate competition.
5 min |
May 2023
Reason magazine
'All the Parents Want Is a Chance To Make That Choice'
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears wants state education dollars "to follow the child instead of the brick building."
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Sen. Pat Toomey on Cryptocurrency and FTX's Collapse
Former Sen. Pat Toomey’s time in Congress, which began in 1999 after he won a House seat in eastern Pennsylvania, officially ended on January 3 when the new Senate session began.
2 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Is Online Illness Culture Keeping People Sick?
WHILE THE FDA KEEPS EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS OUT OF REACH, THE SPOONIE WORLD MAKES A DIAGNOSIS INTO AN IDENTITY.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
SHODDY RESEARCH REINFORCES ANTI-VAPING NARRATIVE
Three years later, the World Journal of Oncology published a study that claimed vapers face about the same cancer risk as smokers. The authors said “prospective studies should be planned to mitigate the risk.”
5 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
THE BUDGET BATTLE BOOK
That job includes authoring, debating, and passing a budget for the astounding amount of discretionary federal spending that Congress is charged with managing each year—in this case, about $1.7 trillion.
4 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
NEW LAWS STOP COPS FROM LYING TO KIDS
Maryland and Washington state already enforce such a rule. And in 2021, Illinois and Oregon became the first two states to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations.
2 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
REAL ESTATE XENOPHOBIA
THERE’S A SPECTER supposedly haunting the globe’s expensive housing markets: the absentee foreign owner.
2 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
TO FIX POLICING, PUNISH BAD COPS
Jordan took a lot of abuse for his remark, which was generally interpreted as boobish and nihilistic.
4 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
The Luddites' Veto
BEWARE OF ACTIVISTS TOUTING \"RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.\" THE SENSIBLE-SOUNDING SLOGAN MASKS A REACTIONARY AGENDA.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
THE ZONING THEORY OF EVERYTHING
LAND USE POLICIES EXPLAIN THE BATTLES OVER EVERYTHING FROM RECESSION TO ABORTION TO DONALD TRUMP.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Ron DeSantis Is on Deck
DOES HE WANT TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT, OR DOES HE JUST WANT TO WIN AT ALL COSTS?
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Don't Underestimate Clarence Thomas
Critics of the enigmatic Supreme Court Justice have overlooked his influence for too long.
10+ min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
As someone who covers the intersection of sex and technology, I was primed to love Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. A great book could be written on this topic-but this is not it.
1 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
Bodies Against the State
In China, crowds of people line the streets. They are holding blank sheets of paper. There's nothing special about the paper; it's ordinary A4 letter size. The police nonetheless know what they mean. The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party know what they mean. The world knows what they mean.
3 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
Biden's Antitrust Crusade
In summer 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on "Promoting Competition in the American Economy." A White House fact sheet declared that the economy was "booming under President Biden's leadership," saying the order was "building on this economic momentum" by pushing back against corporate consolidation, primarily through aggressive antitrust enforcement.
3 min |