Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up
The Warren worldview of ill-founded economic pessimism is both bloodless and moralizing.
October 2019
Cover Story
The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech
Left and right are joining forces under the banner of “hipster antitrust.”
Features
The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock
Meet the economist who understood NASCAR crashes, the sale of indulgences, and the feeding habits of coal tits.
'I'm Radioactive'
Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #MeToo movement. A year later, the fallout continues.
Interview
Neal Stephenson Wants To Tell Big Stories
An economist and a science fiction author discuss cryogenics, mythology, philanthropy, fragmentation, and simulation.
Topics
From Blaming God to Blaming Parents
Religion can explain a tragedy as God's will, or as karma coming around. But in a secular world, blame is often shifted to parents.
Facebook Says Its New Digital Currency Will Be 'Open to Anyone.' That's Not True.
Besides, the regulators are already licking their chops.
Historic House Vote Approves Broad Marijuana Federalism
This vote is "a hopeful sign that the harmful policies of marijuana prohibition will soon be a relic of the past."
The Progressive Feeding Frenzy
The progressive agenda assumes that no amount of taking will ever lead to less earning.
The Pentagon Budget Battle Is a Distraction
An ever-growing military budget is yet another illustration of the GOP's abandonment of small-government principles. And Democrats aren't any better.
Culture
Hells Angels Meet Housewives on Harleys
How bikers turned into their parents and turned off their kids
Books
Free Speech Under Fire
A new book tries and fails to make a case against freedom of expression.
Blood, Delusions, and Corruption in the American West
"This country is now full of men and women with long-term personal experience of contemporary guerrilla insurrection."
Reviews
Good Omens
A demon and an angel team up to stave off the apocalypse and save creation.
Outgrowing Addiction
"We do not see addiction as a permanent personal trait," Peele and Rhoads write.
The Lavender Scare
In 1953, President Eisenhower ordered a purge of gay federal employees, who were deemed security risks. A new documentary delves deeper into this executive order.
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game
What if politics were a strategic, underhanded, zero-sum game that was actually kind of fun?
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Brickbats: October 2019
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
