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SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.
Post Apocalypse
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.
Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?
“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”
Autonomous Mexico
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech
Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.
What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like
Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.
Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech
IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.
There's Nothing Modern About MMT
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.
The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
An $86 Billion Moral Hazard
The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.
The Pandemic Will Make Kids Or Break Them
The COVID-19 era has worked as a stress test for parents and kids alike, breaking some while bringing out reserves of strength and resilience in others.
Cult Country
Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?
‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers
“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.
The Last Pandemic
Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like Covid-19.
'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed Of The Counterculture'
A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand
The Conversion of Thomas Sowell
IT WASN’T UNTIL HIS THIRTIES THAT THE ECONOMIST STARTED TO TURN FROM MARXISM.
The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
Wartime Rationing Changed How America Ate for a Century. The Pandemic Will Do the Same.
The government tried to stabilize the Nation’s food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.
Coming Out Of The Chemical Closet
Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong.
Beyond Covid
More uses for new mRNA technology
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Clings To His Pedestal
A year ago, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a pandemic hero.
The Dream Of The '90s Died In Portland
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.