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Burning Man

Brian Doherty is author of Dirty Pictures, a history of underground comic books.

Burning Man

Brian Doherty: From MAD Magazine to Maus

A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.

Nick Gillespie | 7.6.2022 4:10 PM

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Burning Man Without the Man

No official organization, no tickets, and a different relationship with federal authorities created a near-anarchistic civic experience for Americans battered by COVID-19 anxieties.

Brian Doherty | 9.13.2021 3:00 PM

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Burning Man

Burning Man Sues the Federal Government Over Permitting Fees and a Sketchy Appeals Process

A federal lawsuit demands that the government honor its appeals process regarding the costs it imposes on the annual event.

Brian Doherty | 12.18.2019 3:05 PM

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Burning Man

Burning Man vs. the Bureaucracy

The Bureau of Land Management threatens to impose new restrictions on the famous desert festival.

Brian Doherty | 8.23.2019 1:50 PM

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Burning Man

The Feds Want To Subject Every Burning Man Attendee to a Warrantless Drug Search

The Bureau of Land Management sees no Fourth Amendment concerns with searching American citizens for reasons to arrest them without probable cause when it comes to their event permits.

Brian Doherty | 6.14.2019 6:10 PM

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Burning Man

Going to Burning Man? The Feds Want You Searched for Drugs

Can the government demand a warrantless search with no probable cause of ticket holders as a condition of issuing an event permit?

Brian Doherty | 3.26.2019 2:00 PM

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Burning Man

Wave of Burning Man-Related Drug Arrests Won't Go to Trial

District Attorney finds too many questionable stop and search practices in campaign of harassment aimed at Burners.

Brian Doherty | 10.31.2018 6:00 PM

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Burning Man

Burning Man Attorney Threatens Bureau of Indian Affairs Over Traffic Stops

The feds insist it's just a coincidence that an opioid task force targeted the one road to Burning Man as the event ramped up.

Brian Doherty | 8.27.2018 3:20 PM

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Burning Man

How a San Francisco Beach Burn Set the World Aflame

Larry Harvey, the founder of Burning Man, gifted to American culture a fresh and much-needed ritual.

Brian Doherty | 5.3.2018 10:15 AM

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When Medicine Serves the Police: A Cautionary Tale from Burning Man

Last year a woman went into respiratory failure when a medic shot her with ketamine to help cops subdue her.

Brian Doherty | 8.30.2016 8:50 AM

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Culture

Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty Talking Burning Man on Hound Tall Comedy Podcast with Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero, Matt Kirshen, and Brent Weinbach

Brian Doherty | 10.6.2015 1:53 PM

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Civil Liberties

Drug Dogs Sniffing the U.S. Mail at Burning Man, and Armed BLM Agents Becoming Impromptu Mailmen

Disturbing privacy-violating practice at Burning Man finds drug dogs once again striking out.

Brian Doherty | 9.15.2015 7:39 PM

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Culture

Yes, Burning Man Is Pretty Libertarian in Many Respects

Which is a shame for those who can't tolerate any space not managed by compulsion

Brian Doherty | 8.26.2015 5:21 PM

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Politics

Federal Bureau of Land Management to Burning Man: Give Us Real Toilets, and Clean Them! Safety is All!

The federal agents who hold the festival's life in their hands demand to be gifted better accommodations.

Brian Doherty | 6.26.2015 11:50 AM

Politics

Grover Norquist on Burning Man: 'This is the way the world should be'

Matt Welch | 9.3.2014 1:03 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Latest ISIL Beheading, Grover Norquist Tells All About Burning Man, Report from the Russo-Ukrainian Mini-war, Leaked Nudes, Revolving Cantor, NSA, Minimum Wage, Plus After-show!

Matt Welch | 9.2.2014 8:04 PM

Culture

Burning Man: It's Still Great Even if People Richer Than You Are There (And Buy the 10th Anniversary Edition of My Book!)

Brian Doherty | 8.21.2014 4:22 PM

Politics

Can Burning Man Survive Grover Norquist?

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 7.30.2014 4:52 PM

Politics

Grover Norquist at Burning Man: The Pointless Controversy (Or: Oh No! Someone I Might Disagree with Will Be at My Festival Dedicated to "Radical Inclusion"!)

Brian Doherty | 7.29.2014 5:31 PM

Burning Man

A Cacophonous World

Brian Doherty | 11.1.2013 12:00 PM

Politics

A Normal Person Attends Libertarian Water Festival Ephemerisle

Brian Doherty | 6.11.2013 4:15 PM

Policy

Google CEO Larry Page Supports "Free Cities" Model

Brian Doherty | 5.20.2013 10:23 AM

Politics

Homesteading on the High Seas

Floating Burning Man, "jurisdictional arbitrage," and other adventures in anarchism

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.28.2008 4:58 PM

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Live From Burning Man

David Weigel | 8.30.2007 8:50 AM

Culture

Generation Dobler

The fight to avoid buying, selling, or processing in a wealthy modernity

Brian Doherty | 7.12.2007 12:10 PM

Policy

Brian Doherty Podcast on Burning Man, Trademarks, and the Future of Black Rock City

Brian Doherty | 3.5.2007 5:47 PM

Politics

More on the Burning Brand

Brian Doherty | 1.25.2007 6:49 PM

Policy

Burning Man Belongs to the People, Man

Brian Doherty | 1.16.2007 7:06 PM

Culture

Burning Man's Piano Mover

Turning ruined instruments into a desert spectacle.

Brian Doherty | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Burning Man Grows Up

Can the nation's premier underground event survive its success?

Brian Doherty | 2.1.2000 12:00 AM

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