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A new book, Wretched Refuse?, documents that newcomers not only increase economic activity but often revitalize faith in free market, limited-government institutions.
The escaped slave called the Constitution "a glorious liberty document" that justified extending equality to blacks and women.
The outgoing FCC chairman discusses 'light-touch' regulation and the future of free speech on the internet.
There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
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The libertarian billionaire and the head of his foundation discuss their new book, leaving partisanship behind, and learning from their critics.
The former Reason editor discusses her new book, The Fabric of Civilization, and why she's optimistic about the future.
A new documentary argues that Great Society liberalism laid the foundation for 2014's police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
How to slow massive and unchecked national deficits in an age of runaway spending and divided government.
Whether Trump or Biden wins, the Stanford political scientist says "unstable majorities" will persist in the coming decade.
Here's the inside story of Milton Friedman's path-breaking PBS series about economic and political freedom, from the man who produced it.
The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
Lockdowns are forcing students, parents, educators, and even taxpayers to look for all sorts of alternatives to the status quo.
The author of the new book Transcend updates Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an era of pandemics, racial strife, and extreme polarization.
The Libertarian presidential nominee won't win but is upbeat about Gen Z and protests against lockdowns and police violence.
New documentary explains why installing the shah in 1953 led to ruinous American covert operations throughout the Cold War and beyond.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents the immense, ongoing progress that politicians and media refuse to acknowledge.
The podcaster and comedian offers a 12-step plan for political independence and recovery.
Rose City has been on fire for months. Are Portland-style protests coming soon to a town near you?
A controversial new book aims to debunk "the myths about sex and identity in our society."
The Fox News host explains his new self-help book The Plus, the upside of quarantine, and why he thinks Donald Trump will be reelected.
Dallas officials pulled the plug on the event just three days before it was to begin, costing the libertarian student group $200,000.
The author of a new history of immigration worries that the coronavirus is bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end.
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
The Brown University economist says prejudice and systemic racism are not the primary problems facing African Americans.
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
How to reduce police killings and enact lasting change.
The Ogilvy ad man and Alchemy author says Ludwig von Mises is his hero and that efficiency has nothing to do with free markets.
Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow says violent protests helped Richard Nixon win the presidency in 1968.
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
The longtime activist is the front-runner for the L.P. presidential nomination and has a special message to young people.
New documentary features Sting, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Bourdain, Carrie Fisher, and others discussing the good, bad, and ugly of LSD.
Stanford researcher Tina White and the new nonprofit Covid Watch are committed to protecting both individual rights and public health.
A surgeon and policy analyst tallies up the steep costs of delaying and denying elective surgery and other care during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
The Michigan congressman's run for the White House will change the Libertarian Party and national politics.
"The more we lock down the economy, the more we harm those individuals who are most vulnerable, who don't have the cash cushions or the white-collar jobs that allow them to keep going."
Dr. Jeremy S. Faust talks about battling COVID-19 in the emergency room and how to safely reopen American society.
In a new collection, the economic historian documents how classical liberals pushed for abolition and equality in 19th-century America.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is making MDMA and other drugs medically legitimate and socially acceptable.
The Duke economist and political scientist discusses the response to COVID-19, the coming recession, and the end of higher ed as we know it.
The "rational optimist" talks about coronavirus, Brexit, libertarianism, and his next book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.
The Kentucky Republican took on Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi to fight against the $2 trillion coronavirus spending package. He's just getting started.
Here is the best way to make sense of constantly changing predictions, says Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
Economist Alex Tabarrok on the problems with the U.S. government's response to COVID-19.
The worst-case scenarios projecting millions of deaths don't take into account adaptive behaviors.
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