Reason magazine
The Best Democracy Is Anarchy
Or: Why are cops so scared of puppets?
4 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Ross Douthat
IN HIS APRIL essay “An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive,” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that falling birth rates and fraying cultural institutions signal a civilizational bottleneck— and that mastering our digital tools may be the only way through it. Douthat joined Reason’s Just Asking Questions podcast in April to discuss demographic collapse, technological alienation, and whether the American suburbs might be more resilient than they seem.
2 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
FCC Free Speech Flip-Flop
BRENDAN CARR USED to talk a big game on free speech. In 2021, when members of Congress urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block the sale of a Miami radio station over its perceived political slant, Carr—one of the agency's commissioners—called that move “a deeply troubling transgression of free speech and the FCC's status as an independent agency.”
3 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
MADE IN AMERICA, BROKEN BY TRUMP
A PLATTSBURGH FACTORY'S GROWTH GRINDS TO A HALT THANKS TO THE TRADE WAR.
9 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
The Lonely Neoliberal
FORMER OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ECONOMIST JASON FURMAN ON TRUMP, BIDEN, AI, AND MORE
10+ min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Don't Use the Alien Enemies Act on Alien Friends
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a criminal street gang.
2 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Judge Protects a Utah Church's Mushrooms
WHEN BRIDGER LEE Jensen opened a spiritual center in Provo, Utah, he contacted city officials to let them know the religious group he had founded, Singularism, would be conducting ceremonies involving a tea made from psilocybin mushrooms.
3 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Put the Libertarians Back in Charge
A COMMON GRIPE in American politics is that for too long, libertarians have been in charge, wielding too much power.
3 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
The Fusionist Politics of Ronald Reagan
WHAT THE 40TH PRESIDENT TEACHES US ABOUT LIBERTY, VIRTUE, AND THEIR LIMITS
10+ min |
July 2025
Hot Rod
CHEAP THRILLS! HOW TO GO RACING WITHOUT GOING BROKE
Two words that should never really be strung together are “racing” and “budget.” Getting involved in motorsports and taking your car to the track cost cash, and the harder you hit the track and more serious you get, the more cash you'll burn.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Hot Rod
FUNNY CAR FANTASY
NOBODY TOLD ALEX MILADINOVICH A REGULAR JOE CAN'T BUILD AND RUN AN 11,000-HORSEPOWER MONSTER IN THE NHRA'S PREMIER CLASS, SO HE DID
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Hot Rod
PERSONAL SATISFACTION
JASEN RAMSEY SHOWS US THE FORMULA FOR THE PERFECT FOX RESTOMOD
5 min |
Summer 2025
Hot Rod
Striking That Balance
During my time at HOT ROD, I have developed a greater appreciation for really highend builds, like what you’d see competing for the prestigious awards at the Grand National Roadster Show or the Detroit Autorama.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Hot Rod
INSIPRATION CREATES INNOVATION
THIS OWNER-BUILT '55 GASSER HAS TRAVELED THE COUNTRY
4 min |
Summer 2025
Hot Rod
THE LITTLE MOUSE ON THE SHELF
The Gen 1 small-block Chevy enjoys a rather healthy service life, first introduced 70 years ago in 1955 and available in passenger cars and trucks until it was phased out in 1990.
5 min |
Summer 2025
Road & Track
HOW BIG IS YOUR BUCKET? ADVENTURE AND ACHIEVEMENT COME IN ALL SIZES.
“BUCKET LIST” is a term derived from the concept of “kicking the bucket.”
4 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
COUNT(ACH) ME IN!
THERE'S A REASON THIS LAMBO IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL SUPERCAR.
4 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
Magical Realism
Singer conjures up a fantastical take on the 911 Turbo.
6 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
HORSEPOWER TRADING
A COLLECTOR-CAR AUCTIONEER REFLECTS ON HIS CAREER PATH.
2 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
OUT OF REACH - THE MOST ASPIRATIONAL WATCH IS ONE YOU CAN'T HAVE.
THE BUCKET-LIST WATCH is a dangerous game. It’s good to have a motivating goal, no doubt. But the problem is what happens when you reach that goal. Years, months, or even days later, you need a new holy grail to chase—bigger, pricier, and harder to get than the one you just got.
1 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
PLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES OF RALLY CO-DRIVING.
6 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
MYTH BUSTING
Judging by past speculatory magazine articles, a mic-engine Corvette had been in the works nearly as long as the car has had a V-8. Road & Track’s role in this fantastical vision goes back to at least 1967. Inside GM, though, not so much.
1 min |
June - July 2025
Road & Track
THE KIMI SPECIAL
A NIGHT CAROUSING WITH THE ICEMAN REMAINS MEMORABLE, DESPITE THE COPIOUS AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL.
3 min |
June - July 2025
Reason magazine
This Is Your Brain Before Drugs
DOES USING ALCOHOL, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances?
2 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Why We Don't Fear Scarlet Fever
MY 1-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER recently got sick. She cried nonstop, she ran a fever, and her body broke out in a fiery red, spotty, measleslike rash.
4 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
The Coming Housing Crisis
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP owes his second electoral victory, in no small part, to voter frustration over the rising cost of living.
6 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
McCarthyism, Past—and Present?
CLAY RISEN, A New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation’s institutions mobilized against the Communists believed to be burrowing into American society.
5 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
'WE CAN'T LET THESE SHEEP GO'
A NEW DEAL-ERA PROGRAM NEARLY ERADICATED THE SACRED NAVAJO-CHURRO SHEEP—AND STILL REVERBERATES THROUGH THE NAVAJO NATION TODAY.
10+ min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
ANTI-VAX AND PROTEIN-MAXX
THE HEALTH “FREEDOM” MOVEMENT TAKES POWER.
10+ min |
July 2025
Mac Life
TRUMP TARIFFS & TECH
How the US President's trade tariffs are impacting the tech sector
6 min |