Was the Reagan Revolution Really Reagan's?
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
The desire to know one's fortune seems to be an instinctive human urge.
Gerry Reith's raw, paranoid, apocalyptic fables were shot through with distrust for just about every institution around.
As long as there have been American elections, foreign powers have sought to influence them.
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.
An excellent fantasy series, an 1100 page biography, and the original meaning of Article II
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
"He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia."
Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
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?
A new book shows how the Baltimore Police Department let dirty cops flourish right under its nose.
The book details how the wealthy use the power of the state to snatch your money for their farms, stadiums, banks, real estate developments, and more.
The Founders understood union as a strategic necessity, not a moral imperative.
San Francisco writer Guy Smith finds little evidence that the availability of firearms explains differences in suicide and homicide rates.
How politicians used the drug war and the welfare state to break up black and Native American families
The book argues that rising prosperity and increasing technological prowess will ameliorate or reverse most deleterious environmental trends.
State involvement in people's lives—even "for their own good"—ends up becoming a backdoor way of policing and control.
How former slaves built an autonomous, self-sufficient, and nearly stateless society in the mountains of Haiti, and how they lost it
How do we resolve the cannabis conflict between state legalization and federal prohibition?
The Trump presidency has been a stress test for maximalist theories of presidential power.
Meet the wild dreamers and wealthy financiers striving for human immortality.
The Nebula Award winner is set in a near-future where public gatherings have been radically limited by a global pandemic and threats of violence.
Mears' effort to take readers behind the velvet rope and explore the world of clubbing proves both fun and sobering.
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
Human beings' disturbing capacity to manufacture history to serve our own ends
Second in a series of posts how how to write an academic book and get it published.
They’re not likely to succeed, but the real goal is to seize any money he makes.
Part I in a series of posts about how to write an academic book and get it published.
The anti-voucher polemic is augmented by historical half-truths and selective omissions of countervailing evidence.
An extended profile of the numerous, eclectic grifters surrounding President Donald Trump
From our modern vantage point, it's easy to scorn some decisions that suffrage movement leaders made. Suffrage adds context.
The "privatization" of space has already expanded the possibilities of the cosmos for all mankind far beyond what six decades of federal bureaucracy could.
Adam Minter's book reminds us that a lot of "value is created when less affluent people are given the opportunity to parse the goods of the wasteful affluent."
The Kurds of Northern Syria are trying something different, for better or worse.
Iggy Pop's new book documents the life of a great individualist who, even more than Sinatra, did things his way.