Anti-Airbnb Rat Finks Do Freelance Urban Planning; They Know the Best Use for Everyone's Property!
Whether or not the "sharing economy" is properly communal, it better satisfies human needs. Naturally people want to kill it.
Culture
Farewell, Ron Swanson
A libertarian nation tries manfully to hold back the tears as their fictional hero rides off to the woodworking contest in the sky
"The Tyranny of Nostalgia": Landmarking Businesses Won't Preserve NYC's "Authenticity"
Professional nostalgists advocate for regulations that actually make life more difficult for small businesses.
The Quantified Citizen
Engineering happiness might sound good, but it will leave us all less free.
Florida, the Freest State in the Country?
California, New York, and New Jersey always rank near the bottom of these lists as intrusive, red tape-bound hellholes.
The Elusive Politics of American Sniper
It isn't a hawkish movie, and it isn't conventionally dovish either. But it does have a distinct political perspective.
Fifty Shades of WTF
Everybody hates E.L. James' bondage fantasy except for hundreds of millions of readers and moviegoers. Maybe, just maybe, the fans are onto something.
Hooray for FrankenMosquitoes in the Florida Keys!
Genetically modified mosquitoes combat disease
Less Economic Freedom Equals More Income Inequality
Politicians aiming to reduce inequality end up unintentionally making it worse.
Liberals Right That Guns Won't Stop Campus Rape, Wrong About Much Else
Liberals say guns won't mitigate college rape, and they're right. But affirmative consent won't help, either.
If ISIS Isn't Islamic, Were Crusaders Christian?
A summit on violent extremism at the White House aims to tackle radical Islamism in part by quibbling over definitions.
U.S. Dietary Panel Advocates Sweetened Drink Tax, More Labeling, and Not Adding Cream & Sugar to Your Coffee, Gosh Darnit
"Care should be taken to minimize the amount of calories from added sugars and high-fat dairy or dairy substitutes added to coffee."
The Other Side Speaks: Defending the Accused at Campus Rape Trials
Two lawyers provide an in-depth look at their clients' frustrating struggle for fairness
Baseball Was So Much Better When You Could Dose Team Mascots with LSD
The best souvenier program illustration ever, explained
NYC Reasonoids: Come Get Happy at the Reason/Mediaite Happy Hour, Next Wed 2/25, 6-10p
Come into the light. All are welcome.
What We Saw at the Students For Liberty Conference 2015
Millennials tell us why they're libertarians.
What We Saw at the Students For Liberty Conference 2015
Millennials tell us why they're libertarians.
Pussy Riot Dedicate New Song, 'I Can't Breathe,' to Eric Garner and All 'Who Suffer From State Terror'
"We've known, on our own skin, what police brutality feels like, and we can't be silent on this issue."
Baseball and the Spirit of Innovation
If players are being outsmarted, the solution is for them to wise up, not the game to dumb down.
Jon Stewart and Me
We agreed more than we disagreed but Jon is a comic genius and may be the smartest personality on television.
Canadian Schools Are Strip-Searching Teens And That's Cool with the Government
Ah, the joy of government-run schooling.
Fun-Killing D.C. Cops: No Sledding on Capitol Hill
We can't have another 9/11, after all
This Mom Lost Custody After She Left Her Kid Alone at Home for 90 Minutes
A Canadian court is set to decide whether to criminalize latchkey kids-or at least their parents.
Substitute Teacher Caught on Video Writing Crude Insult About a Student
Streamwood High School substitute has some explaining to do
