This Netflix Show Hates the Government More Than You Do
Between is pop anti-authoritarianism at its most melodramatic-and fun.
Science Fiction
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.
Containment Offers No Cure to a Plague of Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Fantasies
New CW show boldly goes where many have gone before.
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.
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.
Alien Invasion Series Colony Focuses on Human Intrigue
Collaborate or resist? There are no easy answers.
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.
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.
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.
The Man Behind The Martian
Bestselling author Andy Weir on politics, commercial space, and the future of publishing
Star Wars as the Story of Luke Skywalker's Terrorist Radicalization
Arguing about politics is part of what makes Star Wars fandom so much fun.
What Does Star Wars Mean?: A Reason Argument Hotter Than the Twin Suns of Tatooine
The Washington Post's Alyssa Rosenberg, Free Beacon's Sonny Bunch, and Reason's Peter Suderman fight over why we care.
First Private Rocket Goes to Space, Safely Lands on Earth
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin company succeeds with its New Shepard Reusable Rocket
Friday A/V Club: The Story of Hitler's England
Something to watch with The Man in the High Castle
The Martian author Andy Weir on Mars Colonization, Commercial Space Travel, and Going From Programmer to Best-Selling Author
Q&A with the man who wrote the book behind the upcoming Hollywood film starring Matt Damon.
Science Fiction Fans Are Fighting About Politics. It's Not the End of the Universe
Science fiction's culture wars have been around for as long as science fiction.
How Artificial Stupidity Can Kill Us All
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
Sense8: The Wachowskis Bring Their Hallucinatory Visions to Television
First season of show about strangers with mysterious mental connections debuts on Netflix.
The Politics of Tomorrowland
The Fountainhead? More like The Open Conspiracy crossed with "The Gernsback Continuum."
Tomorrowland: 'Atlas Shrugged reimagined by Mickey Mouse'
Is director Brad Bird's film an "insidiously political" argument for the value of individual achievement?
Feminism, Frankenstein, and Freedom
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Prometheus Award Nominees for Best Libertarian Science Fiction Announced
Harlan Ellison to get Hall of Fame award for classic short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman."
Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Invasion from the Moon
Two Firesign Theater veterans recut some ancient movie serials into a conspiracy comedy.
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
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."
