January 2019
Can Algorithms Run Things Better Than Humans?
Welcome to the rise of the algocracy.
Features
These Booze-Making Capitalist Monks Will Make Your Day
When Europe's beer-brewing, liquor-distilling monks combine Catholicism and capitalism, the results are delicious.
When Nonviolence Isn't Enough
Does the right to self-defense apply against agents of the state?
Interview
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.
Topics
Ben Carson Battles the NIMBYs
The HUD secretary's desire to tackle restrictive zoning is encouraging, but real reform will have to come from the bottom up.
Does the Law Require the Drug Czar To Lie About Legalization?
The Office of National Drug Control Policy is required to fight marijuana legalization by any means necessary, even if it is working out well so far.
It's OK To Make Money on Genetic Research
Companies should be applauded, not criticized, for working to identify the genetic roots of diseases that afflict humanity.
The Libertarian Party Future, Perennially Out of Reach
Where does political libertarianism go after the midterms?
India at a Crossroads
India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.
Why Are Conservatives Suddenly Supporting Mandatory Paid Leave?
The additional cost of adding paid leave to Social Security would be $114 billion over 10 years.
Gorsuch Challenges Blank Check for the U.S. Attorney General
A case to watch for both criminal justice reformers and for critics of executive overreach.
D.C. vs. the Wide Open West
The relationship between the people who inhabit those spaces and their distant and often distrusted imperial government.
The FDA Should Lift Restrictions on Gay Blood Donors
The FDA' policy makes no exception for gay men who use condoms or are in monogamous relationships.
Books
Wrestling With Old Hickory's Ghost
A conservative re-evaluation of President Andrew Jackson
Trouble in Paradise
Naomi Klein misses the meaning of "the miracles Puerto Ricans have been quietly pulling off while their government fails them."
Reviews
ETC.
Manhattan Institute's Brian Riedl Is Very Worried About Deficits
Our fiscal problems aren't going away. In fact, they're getting worse.
Cartoons
Bad Incentives
The impossibility of criminal justice reform
