Weekly Archive 2012 October 8-14
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The Empty Case for Big Government
Looking at Leviathan through rose-colored glasses
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Short Skirts and Bear Markets: An Interview with Stock Market Analyst Robert Prechter
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Clinton’s Legacy: The Financial and Housing Meltdown
Clinton sowed the seeds of the Great Recession by helping to inflate the housing bubble.
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Damon Root on Three Supreme Court Cases to Watch
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In Defense of Blackface
Racism, envy, and the complicated politics of minstrelsy.
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Journalist Andrew Malcolm On Embracing New Media
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Let Individuals Take Responsibility for Their Own Food Choices
A new anti-soda video offers a welcome case for personal responsibility.
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Government Spending Alone Did Not Cause the Euro Crisis
Conservatives are wrong to place all the blame on government spending.
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John Goodman on Curing the Health Care Crisis
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Rise of the $5 Pizza
Embracing deflation with 99-cent stores and discount movies
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California's Crony Capitalism Problem
Gov. Jerry Brown and the redevelopment scam
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Seven Psychopaths and Sinister
A dose of bloody comic violence and a genuinely creepy horror flick.
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Friday Funnies
Who killed who?
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Drug Policy and the Obama Administration: A Reason Debate
Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann and Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet take on drug policy and the 2012 election.
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Russ Roberts: Why Keynesians Always Get it Wrong (and Most Economists Too)
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Atlas Shrugged Part II: Election Edition
Ayn Rand's timeless classic is filmed as a Tea Party fable.
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Democrats Are the Real Tax Ideologues
Why Democrats are so scared of tax reform
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Shafted by the Electoral College
At this point, only nine states are deemed worthy of attention by Obama and Romney.
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Let Gary Johnson Debate
If you want a real debate, you will be disappointed, unless Gary Johnson is let in.
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Peter Suderman Says a Busy Bureaucracy is Less Effective
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Mitt Romney’s Hero’s Journey
The GOP nominee as a screenplay protagonist.
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Anthony Randazzo on How Neither Obama or Romney Will Remedy the Housing Market
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Peter Suderman on How Regulators Are Too Busy Adding New Regulations to Regulate on Fox Business
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Marijuana Legalization and the Nanny State: A Reason Debate
Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann and Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet take on pot and public health.
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Mitt Romney, Big-Government Man
If the Republican candidate won't even eliminate intrusive bureaucracy, there's little hope.
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Ai WeiWei, Pussy Riot and the Power of Punk Art: An Interview with James Panero
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Feds Wasting Money on Confusion Centers
DHS fusions centers are "predominantly useless."
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Romney's Middle Class Problem
The GOP presidential candidate's tax plan is vague, backward, and possibly impossible.
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Genetic Testing Answers Old Question: Who Do You Think You Are?
Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey files his third and final dispatch from the Consumer Genetics Conference.
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Marijuana and States' Rights: A Reason Debate
Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann and Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet debate state cannabis initiatives.
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Marginal Revolution University: Q&A with Alex Tabarrok
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Big Labor Is Going For Broke in Michigan
Protect Our Jobs ballot initiative will make unions more powerful than the legislature.
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Hubris Is Not a Strategy
The most quotable line from Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech is a reheated zinger from Rudy Giuliani.
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Obama’s Failed Narrative
Did the presidency ruin a good storyteller, or vice versa?
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The Closing of the Centrist Mind
A self-proclaimed "sensible centrist" writes a sloppy attack on the academic left.
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Mitt Romney Is Wrong: Garage-Based Businesses Are Great
The most infuriating moment of the presidential debate hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
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The Cast of Atlas Shrugged Part II Talks Film's Impact
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How Much Is This Tax Cut Gonna Cost Me, Doc?
Those who fret about the cost of a tax cut are looking at the question from the wrong end of the telescope.
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Four More Years of War
No matter who wins in November, America will remain overstretched overseas.
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The Multitudinous Mitt
With Romney, no position is ever final; no star is ever fixed.