Midterm Identity Crisis
On election eve, the two major parties don't seem to know who they are any more.
December 2014
The Future of Money
Four surprising ways we might pay for stuff in the next 15 years.
Features
Whatever Happened to Inflation?
A look back at controversial predictions about monetary policy
How the Fed Got Huge
The financial crisis fundamentally changed the nature of central banking.
How Buying Drugs Online Became Safe, Easy, and Boring
Silk Road is dead, but anonymous Internet sales of illegal substances are here to stay.
Print Articles
Culture & Reviews
Washington's Beautiful, Illegal Tiny Houses
Architectural minimalism runs afoul of outdated regulations in the nation's capital.
Free Speech and Free Jazz
A documentary captures the life of civil libertarian and music critic Nat Hentoff.
Books
Peter Thiel's Start-Up Manifesto
Why the PayPal founder and early Facebook investor loves monopolies, the Founding Fathers, and Lady Gaga.
Editor's Note
Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye
American politicians are systemically destroying the right to confidential banking.
Columns
Obama's Dumb, Rash, and Unilateral War
Don't buy the president's lame excuses for attacking ISIS without congressional approval.
Why Don't Americans Save Their Money?
We must kill Social Security in order to save retirement.
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
The pitfalls of artificial intelligence
Meet the New Warm Fuzzy Payday Lenders
A better approach for a controversial industry
Citings
The Outback Libertarian
In September, David Leyonhjelm was elected to the Australian senate as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, a libertarian party founded in 2001.
Briefly Noted
Letters
'Has the "Libertarian Moment" Finally Arrived?'
An excerpt from Robert Draper's August 7 cover story in The New York Times Magazine about the ascendance of libertarianism.
Contributors
Artifact
Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
Follow-Up
Did Silver Soar?
In reason's June 1978 financial issue, Charles R. Stahl boldly proclaimed silver "the superinvestment of the decade ahead."
