Book Reviews
Somalia Lived While Its Government Died
"Serious" foreign policy minds care about everything but citizens' lives.
Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Invasion from the Moon
Two Firesign Theater veterans recut some ancient movie serials into a conspiracy comedy.
New Books! A Libertarian Syllabus for Early 2015
12 new books of potential interest to libertarians
He Lived Long and He Prospered: R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy, the Man Who Was Spock
His role on Star Trek paved the way for decades of geek culture.
Friday A/V Club: World Leader Predicts TV Will Solve the Planet's Problems
A blast of techo-utopianism from 1929
Dying and in Denial
A new book offers a powerful dissection of contemporary end-of-life care, yet misses the underlying problem.
Are Demographics Destiny?
Self-interest, sex, snakes, and the making of our political preferences
Scientology-Funded Group Preaching Anti-Drug Message in NYC Public Schools
Foundation for a Drug-Free World was previously kicked out of San Francisco schools for promoting "bogus science."
Venerating Lincoln
A history of Abraham Lincoln's critics would be improved if the author weren't so smitten with Lincoln himself.
Inside Stalin's Head
A biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.
Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think
A Washington, D.C., readathon reminds us that the left once hated this anti-totalitarian classic.
Press Enter for Ecstasy
Wall Street Journal review of the new book, Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High, by Mike Power
How Liberals Put Black America Behind Bars
A surprising new history about race and prison
Reason's Holiday Gift Guide
Our staff recommends some of the best books, movies, and music of 2014.
Peter Thiel's Start-Up Manifesto
Why the PayPal founder and early Facebook investor loves monopolies, the Founding Fathers, and Lady Gaga.
Human Sacrifices for Gun Control
Brian Aitken's memoirs show the dark side of a liberal desire to make the world safer.
Psychedelic Science
Despite steep regulatory barriers, researchers are exploring the therapeutic possibilities of ecstasy, acid, and mushrooms.
The Return of Moral Panic
A scholar tries—and fails—to rehabilitate the sex-abuse hysteria of the '80s.
Now Available in Paperback: The United States of Paranoia
With a new afterword on the post-Snowden era.
Who Rules America?
Joel Kotkin's new book fingers Silicon Valley as the new elite. Is he right?
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
Friday A/V Club: A Soviet Filmmaker Adapts a Post-Apocalyptic Ray Bradbury Story
Forget The Day After. This is the great nuclear-war movie of the early '80s.
