Defending Rihanna From the New Culture Police
Her "Bitch Better Have My Money" video is a slick, seven-minute slice of all of Rihanna's glorious pop toxicity-and that's "problematic."
Art
Hunger for Fascism
Al Pacino withdraws from a play, and from the dark side of the Avant-Garde.
With Liberty and Drag For All! What We Saw at RuPaul's First Ever DragCon
Drag is finding a mainstream audience.
Edward Snowden Statue's Co-Creator Talks With Reason About Political Art, 3D Printing, and Going Legitimate
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
Taking Comics to the People
Artists are using new platforms to bypass gatekeepers and grow the comic book industry.
Fifty Shades of WTF
Everybody hates E.L. James' bondage fantasy except for hundreds of millions of readers and moviegoers. Maybe, just maybe, the fans are onto something.
Killer or Artist? Why Rap is on Trial.
Prosecutors' use of rap videos and lyrics as evidence is chilling artistic speech.
Fooling the Cameras
Leo Selvaggio plans to confound the world's surveillance systems by distributing lifelike masks of his own face.
Why Morphine Matters
It's the most significant chemical substance our species has ever encountered.
Are Video Games Art?
Why games should be taken as seriously as novels, films, and other forms of creative expression.
Why Two Artists Installed a Spy Lamp at McDonald's
Coversnitch is "bridging the gap between online and IRL" in the most terrifying way possible.
The Lost Sisterhood and the Case for Libertarian Novels
A best-selling writer explains the power of historical fiction.
Reason TV: Oliver Stone, Ayn Rand Pop Art, and "Second-Wave Libertarianism"
What We Saw at ISFLC 2014
