Science
Reason magazine
American Elections Are a Mess, and They Always Have Been
The long, weird history of partisan electoral shenanigans
10+ min |
November 2022
Reason magazine
Qatar's World Cup Cruelty
Qatar’s bid to boost its global standing by hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup is hardly unprecedented.
3 min |
November 2022
Reason magazine
Finance for Teens
Our homeschooling family didn’t sign up for this class, but there’s lots to learn from economic turmoil.
3 min |
November 2022
Reason magazine
'This is Bigger Than Basketball'
Enes Kanter Freedom on China, the NBA, and free speech
10+ min |
November 2022
Reason magazine
It's Been 50 Years Since Humans Walked on the Moon
We were supposed to go back to the moon last week. We were also supposed to go back five weeks before that in mid-September, and six months before that.
3 min |
December 2022
Reason magazine
TERRAFORM THE GALAXY
SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHERS and environmentalist thinkers argue that terraforming Mars and other planets, making them suitable for humans and other Earth life, would be immoral. As we near a day when terraforming is actually possible, the arguments against it are worth reviewing and rebutting.
4 min |
December 2022
Reason magazine
ARE WE STILL AWED BY THE HEAVENS?
IS SPACE MORE awesome than ever, now that we've walked on the moon and beheld the stunning photos transmitted by the James Webb telescope? Or is the night sky, thanks to modernity, more meh? In particular, do kids find the universe more meh than the metaverse?
3 min |
December 2022
Reason magazine
THE FRACTAL, FRACTIOUS POLITICS OF THE EXPANSE
TAKING HUMANITY FROM EARTH TO THE STARS ISN'T EASY.
10 min |
December 2022
Reason magazine
FROM SPACE REGULATOR TO ASTRONAUT
George Nield spent his government career thinking about space. Then he got to fly.
10+ min |
December 2022
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 |