Reason magazine
TO HIDE FROM THE STATE, OR TO ESCAPE?
IN HIS 1970 classic Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, Albert O. Hirschman explored three ways people can respond to institutional failure: by standing by the institution anyway, by speaking up to agitate for change within the institution, or by leaving the institution in protest. The European wars of religion, and persistent attempts by the victors in those conflicts to hem in the losers, produced manifold examples of all three.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
NOTRE-DAME REBORN FROM THE ASHES
FIRE NEARLY DESTROYED the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Thanks largely to an outpouring of private donations, the cathedral now shines more brilliantly than it has for centuries.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
HOW TO WALK, AROUND THE WORLD
CHRIS ARNADE IS a photojournalist and the author of the Substack newsletter Chris Arnade Walks the World. He spent a decade walking through American landscapes and documenting what he saw. Now he has expanded his project to include cities around the globe, whether they’re large or small, and whether they’re easily walkable or not. His newsletter documents his mileslong walks off the tourist-beaten paths, showcasing real people everywhere from the Faroe Islands to Albany, New York; from Phoenix to Nairobi, Kenya.
10 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
PASTÉIS AND PARENTING IN PORTUGAL
MY BABY WAS stolen in a Portuguese airport.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
A Beatnik Tourist in Ayahuasca Country
LONG BEFORE IT was popular for New Age norteamericanos to visit the Andes Mountains seeking psychedelic enlightenment from ayahuasca, the Beat novelist William Burroughs made the trek. But he took the journey in 1953, when the literary template for a psychonautic vision quest had not yet been set—not that a grumpy cynic like Burroughs was likely to write that way in the first place. Instead his account feels like the diary of an easily aggravated American tourist with firm views on the quality of the local hotels, officials, “god awful greasy food,” and prostitutes.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
Losing My Religion, Finding My Humanity at an Ayahuasca Retreat
AS THE SECOND ceremony commenced and I was handed my half-dose of the plant medicine, I took a deep breath and thought, “This is going to be an amazing night.”
10+ min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
See Milei's Transformation of Argentina First-Hand
THE SUGGESTION THAT Argentina could be the home of a self-described libertarian president would have seemed far-fetched, to say the least, only a few years ago. Yet today Javier Milei's Buenos Aires is the city where libertarian history is happening.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
6 PLACES TO REALLY GET AWAY FROM IT ALL
SURE, PEOPLE ARE great, but sometimes you really want to be an individual—alone. Solitude and quiet, unfortunately, are becoming a luxury commodity. Here are six out-of-the-way places offering unique experiences to the antisocial traveler.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
CONFLICTS AND CONTRASTS MAKE JERUSALEM ENDLESSLY FASCINATING
THE CHURCH OF the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally identified as the site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, is shared by half a dozen denominations under a baroque \"status quo\" agreement signed in 1757.
6 min |
August - September 2025
The Atlantic
FEUDALISM IS OUR FUTURE
We may already be entering anew dark age.
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
THE Tracy Anderson WAY
INSIDE THE EXCLUSIVE, OBSESSIVE, SURPRISINGLY LITIGIOUS WORLD OF LUXURY FITNESS
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
THE WORLD’S HARDEST BLUFFING GAME
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?
8 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
The Canonization of James Joyce
Richard Ellmann's biography made the novelist a hero to generations of readers and scholars.
10 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
9 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
When Mick Jagger Met the King of Zydeco
Clifton Chenier pioneered a new kind ofblues—and changed rock history, too.
9 min |
July 2025
Mother Jones
PARENT TRAP
Tech bros and “trads” are pushing women to have more babies. Just as long as they're the right kind of women.
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
"WE DON'T ACTUALLY GIVE A FUCK"
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement
9 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
WE WILL NOT BE MOVED
How a group of tenants took on their landlord— and LA’s housing crisis
6 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
FARM REDUCTION
The Trump administration's assault on small farmers
3 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
ASPIES ÜBER ALLES
Elon Musk believes autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
10 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
CYBER SECESSIONISTS
Silicon Valley moguls are creating regulation-free, crypto-based “network states.” And hoping to gobble up land near you.
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
PUNCHING ABOVE OUR WEIGHT
Thanks to you, our trophy closet is overflowing.
3 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
"WE'RE GOING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO KEEP HER SAFE"
How families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on transgender kids
6 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
"TRUMP'S FAVORITE DEMOCRAT❞
Grassroots progressives used to love John Fetterman. Now they wonder what happened to him.
8 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
TURNING THE TIDE
How Hawaii stopped locking girls up by starting to listen to them
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY
An icon of benevolent wealth has fallen upon hard times. What does that say about America?
9 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
A CHILLING EFFECT
The Trump administration threatens polar ice research that could help save us from climate change.
3 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
CONTROL, DELETE
Technofascists are moving fast to break democracy.
6 min |
July/August 2025
Mother Jones
"PROTECTED CLASS"
How an aid to the disadvantaged became a tool for the oppressor
4 min |
July/August 2025
Time
Coral Reefs In Peril
How we can protect the ocean right now
4 min |