Book Reviews
Cotton, Coercion, and Capitalism
A sweeping history aims to change the way we think about the origins of capitalism.
Stranger Things an Homage to Kid-Centric Sci-Fi of the '80s
Netflix series tosses children into suspenseful thriller.
This Netflix Show Hates the Government More Than You Do
Between is pop anti-authoritarianism at its most melodramatic-and fun.
Is Technological Progress Unstoppable?
A new book by a Wired senior editor makes the case
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.
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
If Politicians Were Controlled by Space Aliens, Would We Notice?
Kang and Kodos go to Washington in new CBS show.
Friday A/V Club: The Terrible Things That Can Happen When a Pop Act Makes a Movie
An artifact of the last great rock panic
Friday A/V Club: G.I. Joe's Guide to Monetary Policy
If you want to learn economics from a TV cartoon, you're better off watching South Park.
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.
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.
Containment Offers No Cure to a Plague of Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Fantasies
New CW show boldly goes where many have gone before.
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.
Saving Earth's Biodiversity Through Markets and Technological Progress
A review of Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
Ronald Bailey Reviews Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, by Edward O. Wilson: New at Reason
Saving biodiversity through markets and technology
Dear Conservatives: Don't Peddle Racist Garbage If You Are Not Racist
Their growing flirtation with the sick anti-immigration dystopia, Camp of Saints, is disturbing
Camp of Saints Is a Sick Racist Dystopia and Conservatives Shouldn't Have Anything to Do With It
Restrictionists should try making their case without reviving this vile French book
Klingon Language, Pointy Ears, 'Mood and Theme' of Star Trek All Copyrighted, Paramount Claims
To boldly go where IP law has gone before.
Regulatory Science Fiction
The stories of yesterday provide hints for the lawmakers of tomorrow.
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.
Is Complexity Science Ready for Prime Time?
Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal review of A Crude Look at the Whole
Reds and Feds
What the FBI's war on the Maoist fringe tells us about the surveillance state
Paul Kantner, R.I.P.
Radical and science-fictional Jefferson Airplane musician made the sixties the sixties--and kept growing.
The Libertarian Fiction Hall of Fame
The Libertarian Futurist Society announces this year's nominees for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
Civil Rights and the Right to Work
A new book finds unexpected connections between two movements that shaped the 20th century.
Alien Invasion Series Colony Focuses on Human Intrigue
Collaborate or resist? There are no easy answers.
Ronald Bailey Talks About The End of Doom on C-SPAN Book TV
The anti-doomsaying book for this decade*
Did Star Wars Kill the New Hollywood, Pave the Way for Reagan, and Make Us a 'Nation of Eight-Year-Olds'?
Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
The End of Doom Is the Anti-Doomsaying Book for This Decade
So says Purdue University President Mitch Daniels in the Wall Street Journal
Harlem's Drug Warriors
Was the drug war imposed on black America, or did black America demand it?
How Star Wars Unmasks Baby Boomers As America's Sith Lords
George Lucas' greatest triumph is charting a generation's passage from antiwar activism to running Abu Ghraib and secret kill lists.
Good Stuff Comes from the Bottom Up
How culture, economies, technology, and government evolve
The Incoherent Politics of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The movie is fun, but its post-Galactic Empire political structure doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
