The Missing Cryptoqueen Details the Rise and Fall of Ruja Ignatova's OneCoin Con
Jamie Bartlett's gripping look at the schematics and psychology of a scam
Jamie Bartlett's gripping look at the schematics and psychology of a scam
On the American right, populism has always been lurking in the shadows.
Raymond B. Craib's new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government funded entirely by voluntary contributions.
Wiretapping and eavesdropping used to be the norm. Perhaps privacy was always an illusion after all.
A new book vividly portrays human beings coping with daily existence in a disintegrating society but offers an incoherent analysis of what went wrong.
In his new book, James Kirchick focuses on homosexuals' relationship with national politics during a time when gays were banned from working for the federal government.
Early cities' concentrated populations and burgeoning scale didn't spontaneously summon pharaonic god-kings or bureaucrats.
It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.
As long as there have been laws, there have been attempts to silence people.
The education pioneer's authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children's independence.
Were liquor suppliers across the world guilty of outrageous abuses that explain the prohibitionist response?
Despite all the controversy it has courted, Woody Holton's newest book doesn't stray very far from other scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution.
"A future of bloodless global discipline is a chilling thing."
A World After Liberalism details the rise of a young right that finds reactionary ideas relevant and appealing.
In the face of state failure, neglect, and overt hostility, black Americans need the right to bear arms.
Can humans design products that assemble (and disassemble) themselves?
How Michel Foucault's encounters in Poland's heavily policed gay community informed his ideas
How the war on terror facilitated Communist China's repression of Uyghurs
Cato economist Ryan Bourne's new book is a much-needed rejoinder to the obtuse economic reasoning of many pandemic-era policy makers.
Sohrab Ahmari's case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
We can stop obsessing about Islamic terrorists crossing the Southern border.
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
With panic in the air, federal law enforcement seized the moment.
That time a civil rights activist teamed up with Richard Nixon to build a black-run town in rural North Carolina
America's approach to capital punishment changed in the 1970s. It's time for another look.
If social insurance plans had been designed by libertarian-leaning policy mechanics, what might they have produced?
The integralist right's foolish crush on the man who once ruled Portugal
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
It strains credulity to believe random tweets can lead otherwise normal people to drive across the country and stage an insurrection.
Despite some interesting tidbits, a new history of the game falls short.
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
The desire to know one's fortune seems to be an instinctive human urge.
Nothing in U.S. history suggests that ordinary Americans are isolationists—but nothing suggests they've embraced international adventurism either.
Maxine Eichner's The Free-Market Family laments the bad public policy that makes it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, but often arrives at the wrong solutions.
Jim Bouton pulled back the curtain on the MLB and changed the perception of sports forever.
The members of Steve Bannon's international circle share an outlandish spiritual-historic vision, but their threat to liberty is more mundane.
How can a place that we're intimately familiar with—more than half of America lives in the suburbs—be so unknowable?
The Founders understood union as a strategic necessity, not a moral imperative.
How politicians used the drug war and the welfare state to break up black and Native American families