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Identity politics

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Joe Biden

The Political Lies That Really Matter

From George Santos to Joe Biden, résumé padding is unacceptable. But it's all the lies about legislation we can't afford.

Nick Gillespie and Justin Zuckerman | 1.18.2023 1:00 PM

Identity politics

Arkansas Governor Nixes Latinx

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.13.2023 8:01 AM

Senate

Senator Sasse on Pluralists v. Zealots

Outgoing Senator Ben Sasse on what divides Americans.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.3.2023 8:44 AM

ChatGPT has political biases.

Artificial Intelligence

Where Does ChatGPT Fall on the Political Compass?

We asked the hot new artificial intelligence system to take four popular political quizzes. Guess what we found...

David Rozado | 12.13.2022 12:10 PM

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Gender

Andrew Doyle: How the 'New Puritans' Created a 'Frenzy of Conformity'

The journalist and comedian makes the case that "new puritans" espousing the religion of social justice have captured the Western world.

Nick Gillespie | 11.2.2022 11:00 AM

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Free Speech

How Woke Mobs Ruined Everything and What To Do About It

Andrew Doyle on the "new puritans" and their godawful religion of social justice.

Nick Gillespie | 11.2.2022 10:30 AM

Chris Rufo's battle to "stop woke"

Identity politics

Chris Rufo's Battle To 'Stop Woke'

Livestream with Nick Gillespie, Chris Rufo, and Zach Weissmueller's about Rufo's "counterrevolution" against wokeness

Zach Weissmueller and Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2022 12:45 PM

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Authoritarianism

Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism

The problem with American politics isn't polarization—it's rising illiberalism.

Stephanie Slade | 9.13.2022 6:00 AM

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LGBT

Anti-LGBT Panics Are Bad for Everyone's Liberty

Politicians respond to often unfounded fears with aggressive laws that interfere with individual and family choices.

Scott Shackford | 6.2.2022 8:00 AM

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Genetics

The Politics of DNA

Do genetic differences require us to embrace progressive politics?

Ronald Bailey | 4.17.2022 6:00 AM

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Joe Rogan

The Media's Censorial Freakout Over Joe Rogan

Plus, Supreme Court nominations and affirmative action in schools

Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch, and Peter Suderman | 1.31.2022 4:15 PM

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Social Justice

Basecamp Becomes the Latest Tech Company To Ban Talking Politics at Work

Silence isn't violence, and recusing your company from political discourse, as Basecamp and Coinbase have done, is a perfectly valid line to draw.

Liz Wolfe | 4.28.2021 10:05 AM

Reason Interviews

Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad

The journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher education, and Hollywood.

Regan Taylor and Nick Gillespie | 4.3.2021 10:20 AM

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Asian Americans

Melissa Chen: "Ideas Have Consequences. So Does Silence."

The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.

Nick Gillespie | 3.24.2021 5:42 PM

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Children

Jason Riley: Thomas Sowell's Unique Insights on Race, Economics, and Politics

A new documentary and forthcoming biography pay tribute to the economist's intellectual fearlessness and commitment to empirical research.

Nick Gillespie | 2.24.2021 3:45 PM

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Joe Biden

Conor Friedersdorf: Stand Against Left-Wing and Right-Wing P.C.

The Atlantic writer says that illiberalism and the urge to shut down debate need to be confronted across the political spectrum.

Nick Gillespie | 2.17.2021 3:56 PM

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Politics

This Gun Shop Says It Won't Do Business With Biden Voters

Tech companies should have the same freedom to choose their customers.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.12.2021 1:45 PM

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1619 Project

Damon Root: Why Frederick Douglass Loved the Constitution (and You Should Too)

The escaped slave called the Constitution "a glorious liberty document" that justified extending equality to blacks and women.

Nick Gillespie | 12.9.2020 5:00 PM

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anti-war

Glenn Greenwald on Biden, Free Speech, and Leaving The Intercept

There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.

Nick Gillespie | 11.27.2020 11:40 AM

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Joe Biden

Glenn Greenwald: Nothing Trump Did Compares to the 'Moral Evil' of Bush's and Obama's Wars

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist on Joe Biden, free speech, and leaving The Intercept for Substack.

Nick Gillespie | 11.25.2020 3:15 PM

Volokh Conspiracy

Weren't There Macedonian Actresses Who Had Been Having Affairs with Italians Who Could Be Cast in the Role?

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.18.2020 9:11 PM

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Cancel Culture

Goya Boycott: Everything Is Political Now

Politics are even in our soup.

Daniel Raisbeck | 7.16.2020 3:00 PM

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Reason Roundup

On Biden Sexual Assault Allegation, Silence Then Hypocrisy

Plus: Backlash to Amash's presidential run, new SCOTUS cases, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.30.2020 9:52 AM

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Reason Roundup

State of the Union: Trump Tells Tall Tales, Dems Walk Out

Plus: Iowa updates, Ancestry.com tells cops to buzz off, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.5.2020 9:38 AM

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Election 2020

As Progressive Twitter Erupts at Joe Rogan Endorsing Bernie Sanders, a Reminder: Elizabeth Warren's Sexism Gambit Backfired

Sanders' lead over Warren has doubled since her campaign tried using a private 2018 conversation against him.

Matt Welch | 1.24.2020 10:55 AM

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Reason Roundup

Everyone Is Confused About Trump's Executive Order on Judaism

Plus: the foundations bankrolling bad tech policy, they is the word of the year, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.11.2019 9:50 AM

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Feminism

Stan Lee Co-author Kat Rosenfield on Rise of Cancel Culture in the Literary World

Trick of Light collaborator talks about working with a legend, the failings of online community, and the rise of cancel culture in the literary world.

Nick Gillespie | 9.11.2019 1:17 PM

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Identity politics

White Identity Politics, Not Trump's Racist Tweets, Is National Conservatism's Real Problem

The debate over Donald Trump's "go back" tweets regarding four minority Democratic members of Congress has centered on the unmistakably bigoted words that he wrote, but has missed the deeper point.

Steven Greenhut | 7.26.2019 8:00 AM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Identity Politics Gone Mad, From Trump to Ayanna Pressley

American discourse is careening in an ugly, anti-individualistic direction.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie | 7.15.2019 4:05 PM

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Social Justice

Campus Radicals Against Free Speech

Reason's Robby Soave on his new book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump

Zach Weissmueller, Robby Soave, Alexis Garcia, and Ian Keyser | 6.17.2019 10:30 AM

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Alt-Right

Young Radicals Against Free Speech: Reason's Robby Soave on His New Book, Panic Attack

The 30-year-old journalist talks before a live audience about his new book on millennial activism in the Trump era.

Zach Weissmueller and Robby Soave | 6.14.2019 12:07 PM

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Reason Roundup

The Partisan Divide Is Turning Into an Age War by Proxy

Plus: A primer on street surveillance, new video from Sandra Bland's cellphone, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.7.2019 9:30 AM

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man's Real Secret Identity? You.

Peter Suderman | 3.2.2019 6:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

Critiquing Israel Policy Worse Than White Nationalism, Says GOP Leader: Reason Roundup

Plus: Klobuchar and Warren join Democrat 2020 contest and AOC retracts "Green New Deal" draft.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.11.2019 9:30 AM

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College

The Beast That Devours Itself

Identity politics and deplatforming in college theater.

Michael B. Poliakoff | 1.7.2019 11:40 AM

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Francis Fukuyama

Ideology Is Out, Identity Is In

Stanford's Francis Fukuyama on the rise of populism in the West and how identity politics thwarted the end of history.

Nick Gillespie | 12.25.2018 6:00 AM

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Reasontv

Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism? John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh

Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.

Todd Krainin | 11.30.2018 12:20 PM

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Partisan Identification

Don't Count on Americans Hating Each Other Any Less Post-Midterms

Baffled by and fearful of each other, the political tribes remain consumed by loathing and dedicated to total victory.

J.D. Tuccille | 11.15.2018 8:35 AM

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Blockchain

Blockchain Is Changing Lives in Africa

Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.

Jillian Keenan | 10.27.2018 6:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

De Niro and Biden Latest Targets of Suspected Pipe Bombs: Reason Roundup

Some conservatives are calling it a political stunt cooked up by Democrats. Democrats blame Trump's rhetoric. Trump blames the media.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.25.2018 9:30 AM

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Native Americans

The Complex, Childish Identity Politics of Elizabeth Warren's Native Heritage

There's nothing wrong with a little self-mythologizing when you're young, but there comes a time to set aside childish things.

Nancy Rommelmann | 10.16.2018 5:45 PM

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Identity politics

Does Trump Mean the End of the End of History?

A review of Francis Fukuyama's book on the threat of identity politics of the right and left to Western liberalism

Shikha Dalmia | 10.15.2018 12:10 PM

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Reason Podcast

Francis Fukuyama Says Identity Politics Are Killing America and Empowering Donald Trump: Podcast

Nick Gillespie | 9.26.2018 3:00 PM

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Jonah Goldberg

The Tribe of Liberty

National Review's Jonah Goldberg wonders how to save civilization in his new book, Suicide of the West.

Nick Gillespie | 9.24.2018 6:00 AM

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Identity politics

End of History Author Francis Fukuyama Thinks Leftist Identity Politics Helped Create Trump

Plus: Why Jordan Peterson may be right about postmodern neo-Marxism.

Robby Soave | 8.31.2018 2:10 PM

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