Science Fiction

Politics

Unpacking Jared Lee Loughner

If you're the Southern Poverty Law Center, the media will mistake your guesses for gold.

Jesse Walker | 1.20.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

E.T. Stay Home?

We haven't heard from space aliens and that might be good news.

Ronald Bailey | 1.4.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Commercial Appeal

Peter Suderman | 12.28.2010 10:59 AM

Policy

Lavatory of the Gods? NASA Keeps Finding Alien Life Everywhere But Space

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.2.2010 1:40 PM

Culture

Do Robots Dream of Punching Slovenians?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.29.2010 4:16 PM

Culture

Live Forever, Or Die Trying

Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.

Brian Doherty | 9.22.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

Asteroids: Why Are They an American Problem?

Brian Doherty | 9.17.2010 1:32 PM

Culture

The Men Who Sold the Moon

Advertising the early space race

Brian Doherty | 9.15.2010 6:00 PM

Culture

Spare Parts

The scientific horror of Never Let Me Go

Kurt Loder | 9.14.2010 4:30 PM

Science Fiction

Briefly Noted: It's All in the Game

Jesse Walker | 8.21.2010 10:02 AM

Politics

California Roundup: House Poor; Dodger Blue; Bad Debts; Kickbacks; and Mystery Theater

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.20.2010 8:48 PM

Culture

Thursday Fun Link: Ray Bradbury Always Wins

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.19.2010 1:29 PM

Culture

Ray Bradbury Hysterical Theater: We Got Too Much Gummint, Too Many Internets, But Not Enough Moon Colonies! UPDATED AUGUST 17!

Nick Gillespie | 8.16.2010 10:00 PM

Culture

Epistemic Closure…For Nerds

Jesse Walker | 7.26.2010 1:05 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Photoshop, FOIAs, and the Rivers of Babylon

Jesse Walker | 7.23.2010 8:22 AM

Politics

Authorized Heinlein Bio Out Next Month, Science Fiction Writers Get Pumped

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.15.2010 1:57 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Cory Doctorow on The War on Kids, Boing Boing, & His Next Novel

Reason Staff | 7.15.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Plastic Brains, Femmebots, and Aliens Watching TV

Dispatches from the Humanity+ Summit

Ronald Bailey | 6.22.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

Heinlein Archives, Purchasable Online

Brian Doherty | 6.21.2010 1:15 PM

Culture

Stephen Hawking: Damn All Aliens!

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2010 5:30 PM

Culture

Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross to Write Authorized Atlas Shrugged Sequel

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.1.2010 4:34 PM

Science Fiction

Vonnegut on Film

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.21.2010 7:29 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted Books, Movies, and More

We the Living lives, a lesson from the newspaper business, Cory Doctorow's Makers, and exposing Mexican injustice

Brian Doherty, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Radley Balko | 1.27.2010 3:00 PM

Culture

One Step Closer to Idiocracy

Brian Doherty | 1.14.2010 10:00 AM

Culture

Liberals and Libertarians at the Movies

Peter Suderman | 1.12.2010 11:13 AM

Culture

Transhuman Wrap: Come for the Little-Kicks Dance, Stay for the Toe Shoes

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.6.2009 9:55 PM

Culture

Literary Corner (Genre-Crossed Edition)

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2009 3:02 PM

Politics

Zombies: A Rothbardian Perspective

Jesse Walker | 9.7.2009 8:30 AM

Zombies

Zombies, Man, They Really Creep Me Out

Damon Root | 6.22.2009 11:27 AM

Culture

Death of a Dystopian

The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard

Joanne McNeil | 6.19.2009 12:00 PM

Culture

Sixty Years After 1984

Does Orwell's dystopian classic still matter?

Cathy Young | 6.11.2009 6:00 PM

Politics

The Politics of Superheroes

Want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie.

Jesse Walker | 5.5.2009 7:00 AM

Culture

Philip Jose Farmer, RIP

Jesse Walker | 2.26.2009 7:26 AM

Politics

Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner in France

How TV's most individualist character made a communitarian country swoon

Emmanuelle Richard | 1.15.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Patrick McGoohan, RIP

Jesse Walker | 1.14.2009 1:44 PM

Policy

Michael Crichton, R.I.P.

The novelist and public policy provocateur dies at age 66.

Ronald Bailey | 11.6.2008 12:00 PM

Intellectual Property

Remixing Television

Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground

Jesse Walker | 7.18.2008 12:00 PM

Obituaries

Thomas M. Disch, RIP

Jesse Walker | 7.7.2008 10:52 PM

Politics

Lost in Political Philosophy

The popular show drops plenty of clues but, can you trust them?

Brian Doherty | 2.5.2008 12:20 PM

Culture

Madeleine L'Engle, RIP

Jesse Walker | 9.10.2007 9:33 AM

Culture

When Imaginary Worlds Collide

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2007 9:45 AM

Culture

My Clothes Are a Harsh Mistress

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2007 4:55 PM

Politics

Robert Heinlein at 100

How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist world.

Brian Doherty | 7.9.2007 12:06 PM

Television

The Horrible Truth About Super-Science

Jackson Publick of The Venture Brothers on superheroes, satire, and the '60s

David Weigel | 7.1.2007 12:35 AM

Culture

Scientifiction Makes Good; Gernsback Smiles

Brian Doherty | 6.22.2007 6:15 PM

Culture

Is It Too Late To Piss on Kurt Vonnegut's Grave Using Kilgore Trout's Unusually Shaped Penis?

Nick Gillespie | 4.20.2007 7:30 AM

Culture

Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

Jesse Walker | 4.12.2007 9:32 AM

Politics

Porno for Paranoids

Jesse Walker | 4.11.2007 10:21 AM