Victor Frankenstein Is the Real Monster
Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200.
Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200.
The daily newspaper columns of H.L. Mencken
How libertarians learned to stop worrying and love The Dispossessed
The show, based on the work of Philip K. Dick, is like Black Mirror but if people were sometimes good.
Obvious propaganda should be labeled propaganda, obviously.
"The Last Jedi" focuses on the value of institutions, not just individual heroes. But it's still hard to tell what the rebels are fighting for.
All culture is participatory culture, and none more so than Star Wars. A debate hotter than the twin suns of Tatooine.
Time travel and originalism (not in the same book!)
Netflix sci-fi series draws comparisons to Stranger Things that do it no favors.
The author of Seeing Like a State casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom about the cradle of civilization.
Weir's new book Artemis imagines life in a lunar settlement.
The times and trajectory of Max Eastman, progressive turned "libertarian conservative"
The Soviet elite who built a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and paid with their lives
Friday A/V Club: Celebrate Halloween with Gerald Heard, Boris Karloff, and some killer bees.
The hit cartoon depicts how out of control presidential power has gotten.
A controversial attack on a libertarian-leaning economist mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
Friday A/V Club: Celebrating half a century of an individualist TV show
The standing army, Native American opposition, and the high cost of territorial expansion
Clinton takes complete ownership for how her actions are all your fault.
How Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition.
Democracy in Chains mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
The author of Little Brother and Walkaway on dystopia, the end of scarcity, and what's going to get him arrested
The death and life of a great American urbanist
CBS show is disposable summer television at its worst.
Confused adaptation of Stephen King's novella dissipates the tension.
Author Nick Bilton misses the point on the dark net.
The novelist, activist, and BoingBoing founder on cyber warfare, Uber-style reputation economics, and what he's likely to get arrested for someday.
In 2008, Obama told GM factory workers in Janesville, Wisconsin, that the plant would "be here for another 100 years." It has since closed, leaving thousands unemployed.
The scandal has exposed odd taboos in the liberal-leaning Drupal community and how hypocritical their talk of tolerance can be.
The annual prize honors libertarian-themed science fiction.
Trump haters rush to buy the famous dystopian novel.
Finalists for a libertarian literary prize
The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Mandibles pulls no punches when it comes to race, sex, or economics.
You can't blame the filmmaker for being annoyed. But audiences are always repurposing art, sometimes in creepy ways, sometimes in ways that are more appealing.