Staff Reviews
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Conservatives Against Incarceration
How criminal justice reform found support on the right—and what it will take to push it further
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Where Did Trump Come From?
A new history of the American right sheds light on the GOP in 2016.
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Cotton, Coercion, and Capitalism
A sweeping history aims to change the way we think about the origins of capitalism.
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Is Technological Progress Unstoppable?
A new book by a Wired senior editor makes the case
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Ronald Bailey and Robin Hanson Talk Robot Overlords at Cato: Video
Hanson presents his new book, The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth. I discuss.
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How Privatization and Competition Freed the Web and Made the Modern World Possible
The historical importance of the National Science Foundation's decision to surrender control of the internet
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"Let people do what they want with their own bodies and property": Q&A with Todd Seavey - New at Reason!
'Libertarianism for Beginners' was born in seeing the Soviet Union collapse.
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"Let people do what they want with their own bodies and property": Q&A with Todd Seavey
'Libertarianism for Beginners' was born in seeing the Soviet Union collapse.
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Snoop Dogg Didn't Watch the New Roots Miniseries. What About You?
The rapper makes a passionate, NSFW case against the classic. He's really on to something.
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Baby Boomers and the Politics of Midcentury Nostalgia
"Our body politic is itself an aging boomer looking back upon his glory days," argues Yuval Levin in his new book.
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Don't Just Do Something!
"Humanitarian" interventions often lead to increased harm.
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Don’t Tell Us How to Live Our Lives!: A Libertarian Millennial Manifesto!
Exclusive excerpt from Government Gone Wild: How D.C. Politicians Are Taking You for a Ride—and What You Can Do About It.
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Libertarianism for Beginners: Can Understanding Libertarianism Be Easy and/or Fun?
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Randy Barnett: How To Secure Our Liberty Through "Our Republican Constitution"
The intellectual leader of the libertarian legal movement talks about Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, third parties, Merrick Garland, and how to roll back the state.
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Saving Earth's Biodiversity Through Markets and Technological Progress
A review of Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
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Ronald Bailey Reviews Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, by Edward O. Wilson: New at Reason
Saving biodiversity through markets and technology
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In Defense of Freelancing
A critique of the gig economy misses the mark.
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How America's Welfare System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
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Spectres Haunting Europe
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Defending Atticus Finch
Atticus will endure, as a good, flawed—and yes, often heroic—man who does not always have the right answers but always tries to live by his conscience.