The Iconoclast
Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection
Features
Who Should Reign Supreme?
Reason asks libertarian legal experts: Who are your favorites--past, present, and future--on the nation's highest court?
Not So Supreme
A Court Divided author Mark Tushnet explains William Rehnquist's legal legacy--and why the nation's top court matters less than you think.
How Schools Cheat
From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging testscores, educators are lying to the American public.
Self-Defense vs. Municipal Gun Bans
When Hale DeMar shot an intruder in his house, he may well have saved his children's lives. So why was he charged with a crime?
Legalize Now!
War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war.
The House the Burgeses Built
One family's neighborhood-wide approach to home education.
Ayn Rand at 100
Loved, hated, and always controversial, the best-selling author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is more relevant than ever.
The Born-Again Individualist
Fox News Channel's Judge Andrew Napolitano on lying cops, out-of-control government, and his bestselling new book, Constitutional Chaos.
Transportation Security Aggravation
Debating the balance between privacy and safety in a post-9/11 aviation industry.
Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future
The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods
How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility"
Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants
Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.
Fly the Frugal Skies
How low-cost airlines have transformed Europe--and what it means for America.
Hayek for the 21st Century
Biographer Bruce Caldwell on the Road to Serfdom author's enduring lessons about bad planning, distributed information, and the liberating power of choice.
Cut-Rate Diplomas
How doubts about the government's own "Dr. Laura" exposed a résumé fraud scandal.
Revolt of the Porcupines!
The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a revolutionary plan or a pipe dream?
Disney's War Against the Counterculture
Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever.
The Reluctant Planner
FCC Chairman Michael Powell on indecency, innovation, consolidation, and competition
Mandatory Health Insurance Now!
It will save private medicine -- and spur medical innovation.
Welcome to the Fun-Free University
The return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom.
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties
The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights.
David Simon Says
The creator of HBO's The Wire talks about the decline of journalism, the failure of the drug war, and a new kind of TV.
John Perry Barlow 2.0
The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body -- and his politics.
Dr. Feelscared
Drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain.
