Science
Reason magazine
Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Words
The death and life of a great American urbanist
5 min |
August/September 2017
Reason magazine
Your Money Or Your Life
The immorality of insurance
5 min |
July 2017
Reason magazine
Under The Stars And Under The Radar
A handy guide to camping on forbidden turf
4 min |
July 2017
Reason magazine
Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)
VIDEO GAMES, LIKE work, are basically a series of quests comprised of mundane and repetitive tasks: Receive an assignment, travel to a location, overcome some obstacles, perform some sort of search, pick up an item, and then deliver it in exchange for a reward—and, usually, another quest, which starts the cycle all over again. You are not playing the game so much as following its orders. The game is your boss; to succeed, you have to do what it says.
10+ min |
July 2017
Reason magazine
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
8 min |
July 2017
Reason magazine
God And Man At The FBI
Dissident and off beat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.
4 min |
July 2017
Reason magazine
Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook
Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook
5 min |
June 2018
Reason magazine
Why The Wall Won't Work
The Legal, Practical, Economic, and Moral Case Against Trump’s Border Barrier
10+ min |
May 2017
Reason magazine
Drug Smugglers Have Already Beaten Trump's Wall
DURING A SPEECH announcing his intention to seek the presidency, Donald Trump stumbled on what would become a signature issue for his campaign: Mexico.
4 min |
May 2017
Reason magazine
Why It's So Hard To Get Pervs Out Of Politics
POLITICS IS A high-stakes, winner-takes all game with irresistible appeal to a certain kind of low-quality human being. There are typically only two viable candidates in any national race, and voters have a lot invested in the idea that bad things will happen if their guy loses.
5 min |
February 2018
Reason magazine
You're Not Going To Die In A Plane Crash
That has nothing to do with who is president.
4 min |
March 2018
Reason magazine
The Applied Theory Of Bossing People Around
Richard Thaler’s prize isn’t noble.
5 min |
March 2018
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
What Politicians Must Do When Protesters Attack
Learning from Robert McNamara’s mistakes and magnanimity.
5 min |
March 2019
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
Whiplash And Backlash In The Republic Of Cuba
Starvation Won’t Turn Cubans Into Capitalists. Trade And Tourism Might.
10+ min |
October 2017
Reason magazine
The Rise Of Atomic Humanism
The Rise Of Atomic Humanism
2 min |
October 2017
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
Democracy In Decline?
If its recent record is any indication, Winston Churchill might have been wrong about democracy.
10+ min |
March 2019
Reason magazine
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
Make School Hard Again
ON MARCH 12, news of a massive admission scandal broke in the world of higher education.
7 min |
June 2019
Reason magazine
Meet The Teens Who Want To Get Vaccinated Against Their Parents' Wishes
What Happens When A Kid Raised By “all-natural” Parents Wants To Make A Different Choice?
9 min |