The Reactionary Tradition Out To Annihilate American Liberty
A World After Liberalism details the rise of a young right that finds reactionary ideas relevant and appealing.
Culture
Biden's Plan To Address Meat-Price Inflation Ignores That Federal Intervention Caused the Problem
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
Mandatory GMO Disclosure Doesn't Sway Shopping Habits (But Will Drive Up Costs)
Plus: Questioning paranoia about smartphones and attention spans, new small business creation is thriving, and more...
Why Pandemic Promiscuity Is Out—And 'Slow Love' Is In
Sex expert Helen Fisher says that careers and COVID have made singles less promiscuous and more serious about relationships.
Food Costs Likely To Rise as Farmers' Expenses Shoot Up
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
Animal-Rights Laws Are Coming Back To Bite California and Massachusetts Voters
State food laws shouldn't apply to producers and consumers across state lines.
Review: Licorice Pizza
Squalls of flak suddenly surround one of the year’s most loveable movies.
The History and Politics of Public Radio
James T. Bennett's libertarian critique argues that noncommercial radio can be detached from the state—and that it's better that way.
Goodbye, Cuomos!
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
Harry Potter Knew the Fake News Media Is the Enemy of the People
The 20th anniversary of the first film is an occasion to recall J.K. Rowling's inspiring political agenda.
Mindfulness Is What's Missing From the Political Arena
Politics isn’t going away, so we can at least try to make it less bad.
Even if Modern Star Trek Doesn't Think So, the World Is Getting Better
Star Trek used to dare to say that things were getting better.
Cities Undermine the Holiday Spirit with Unconstitutional Bans on Sharing Food with the Homeless
Do you, like many Americans, feel especially charitable this time of year? Enjoy helping those in need? Better buy a permit.
White Lotus
The true villains of Mike White's new show are two Gen Z college students practicing militant wokeness.
Foundation
The TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic trilogy is still fundamentally about the ways in which politics and objective truth inevitably clash.
What Should Have Happened at the Cryptocurrency Hearings
"You know what else is used for nefarious activities?"
The Matrix Resurrections Is Less a Sequel and More a Bizarre Thinkpiece About The Matrix's Legacy
It's the strangest, most meta sequel of the year.
Joe Manchin Drives Final Nail Into Doomed 'Build Back Better' Plan. For Now.
Plus: The pragmatic approach to omicron is emerging, lumber prices are skyrocketing again, and more...
A Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense
In the face of state failure, neglect, and overt hostility, black Americans need the right to bear arms.
California Promised Street Vendors More Freedom. Instead They Got More Rules.
The state’s “reforms” have saddled merchants with oppressively expensive permitting demands.
The Packers Have a Unique Way To Fund Stadium Improvements: Ask Fans for Money
Other teams beg for taxpayer handouts.
Why Does Kenny G Drive Critics Crazy?
Penny Lane’s new film explores the gap between diehard fans and critical elites.
Global Freedom Is on the Decline
A new report says 83 percent of the world's population is less free today than it was in 2008, and the gap between the world's most and least free countries is growing.
Spider-Man: No Way Home Is a Spider-Man Movie About How Much You Enjoyed All the Other Spider-Man Movies
It's the two Spider-Mans meme in $200 million movie form.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
For the most part, the series' characters revere due process rights rather than seeing them as something to be trampled in pursuit of justice.
The NFL and NBA Must Chart a New Path Through Omicron Panic
What the major professional sports leagues decide to do in the next few days will play a significant role in how Americans view the next stage of the pandemic.
We Keep Going Back to The Matrix
How a generation was redpilled by a nerd power fantasy about defining yourself in the digital age
Akhil Amar Dismantles The Flawed Dissents in WWH v. Jackson
Amar explains how Roberts and Sotomayor messed up Marbury.
Helen Fisher: Why the 'Hot Vax Slutty Summer' Never Happened
A new survey of single people confirms that we have more sexual choices than ever. Match.com's chief science adviser explains why such a libertarian outcome doesn't lead to libertinism.
Newark's Scrooges Want To Ban Giving Food to Homeless People
Donating to the needy, in addition to being a generally nice thing to do, is a protected First Amendment activity.
Attract Government Attention and Get Your Name Run Through a 'Terrorist' Database
Offending the powerful can be dangerous in an increasingly authoritarian world.
What Technology Can Learn From Biology
Can humans design products that assemble (and disassemble) themselves?
Julian Assange Extradition Decision the Latest Blow to Freedom of the Press
Either everybody gets to enjoy journalistic freedom, or it will turn into glorified public relations work for the powers-that-be.
The Second Great Age of Political Correctness
The P.C. culture of the '80s and '90s didn't decline and fall. It just went underground. Now it's back.
The Great Libertarian Gift Guide of 2021
It's time to spread cheer. Reason is here to help.
Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Is a Dazzling Bit of Americana
It’s a moving story about immigration and assimilation, and one of the best movies of the year.
A Scientific Life on the Edge
Stanton Peele's memoir of his "lonely quest to change how we see addiction" contradicts the prejudices that still dominate the drug policy debate.
Squid Game Says More About Communism Than Capitalism
The breakout Netflix series contains critiques of a decidedly "anti-capitalist" political and economic system that's haunted the Korean Peninsula.
School Choice Returns to the Supreme Court
The justices heard oral arguments this week in Carson v. Makin.
