FBI Blunders and Internet Panic: How the Search for Charlie Kirk's Killer Went Off the Rails
The alleged shooter was turned in by his family and roommates while the surveillance state remained clueless.
The alleged shooter was turned in by his family and roommates while the surveillance state remained clueless.
Cato Institute scholar has a great overview of the data on how much political violence there is, and who perpetrates it. It is less prevalent than many think, and right-wing political violence is more common than the left-wing kind.
The pundit and activist was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University.
Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?
"Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews," Hazony declared at last week's National Conservatism Conference.
Conservative founding father Frank Meyer and libertarian founding mother Rose Wilder Lane had rich, friendly debates on how much American liberty relied on old European traditions.
Some right-wing influencers love sorority girls because they're hot. Others hate them...because they're hot.
Would wealthy men really choose a Waffle House waitress over a girlboss?
A growing number of conservatives agree with the left that free markets are to blame for society's ills.
The novelist Thomas Mallon's journals reveal a side of the '80s that the standard gay histories—and standard conservative histories—tend to ignore.
The provision requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
It’s not the only way the Republican senator is closer to democratic socialism than to traditional conservatism.
It's a return to the Reagan era, but not in the way that should make conservatives happy.
Some conservatives are embracing the very trends they once mocked—including victimhood, cancel culture, and even struggle sessions.
The result is the same: attacks on tech companies and attempts to violate Americans' rights.
Fusionism holds that virtue and liberty are mutually reinforcing, and that neither is possible in any lasting or meaningful way without the other.
Media coverage of our tariff case has mostly been fair and accurate. But there are a few examples of unfortunate misconceptions, mainly having to do with libertarianism and its relationship to conservatism.
You can hear echoes of Buckley's early career in more than one MAGA crusader's rhetoric today. That's not a sign of a man who won.
Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the reactionary right?
Trump's comment about how "dolls" will "cost a couple of bucks more" is the latest in a long trend of nationalist conservatives disparaging affordable stuff.
The New York Times columnist warns that digital life may be eroding the cultural foundations needed to sustain meaning, family, and community.
How John McClaughry and Karl Hess fought to decentralize power—one from inside the system, one ever further from it
The Austrian economist's principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right.
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name their least favorite national emergency from the list of those currently in effect.
The policies pushed by some MAGA Republicans sound a lot like the ideas of socialist Democrats.
Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism thesis.
The company, which says it takes an "apolitical approach" to rating news outlets, faces regulatory threats and a congressional probe because of its perceived bias against conservatives.
"It is very smart to be the people who are like, 'We are normal moms and dads who love football, freedom, and faith, and we want to keep your freedoms intact,' " the New York Times contributor tells Reason.
A new report shows that politically connected companies were better able to navigate the exclusion process and avoid paying tariffs during the Trump administration.
Reason's Billy Binion speaks with political pundit and podcaster Meghan McCain.
Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present.
Trump's protectionist running mate comes out against “cheap, knockoff toasters” and common sense.
A lot more than Oren Cass and J.D. Vance want you to think, and Americans wouldn't like the tradeoffs necessary.
Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo is at the center of a fight between labor unions and venture capital that's dividing the populist right.
"We'd have a national ban on pornography if we could, right?"
Dorr Legg saw the government as homosexuals' enemy.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about Project 2025.
The controversy over Vance's advocacy of higher tax rates for childless adults illustrates the power of framing.
The New Right talks a big populist game, but their policies hurt the people they're supposed to help.
Plus: A listener asks the editors if employers should be held responsible for the speech and actions of employees outside of the workplace.
This week left no doubt that the GOP's current leadership wants the government to do more, spend more, and meddle more.
Fox News commentator Mary Katharine Ham discusses Trump's new policy agenda.
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states.
Keir Starmer’s Labour secures a sweeping victory, taking the helm from Rishi Sunak.
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
A much more liberal left is facing off with a slightly more conservative right.