The New Red Scare
The current debate over the alt-right has begun to display some of the same hallmarks of red scares past.
The current debate over the alt-right has begun to display some of the same hallmarks of red scares past.
Xenophobia meets technophobia.
Participating in the marketplace of ideas is not interference.
Comedian, civil-rights activist, food guru, and conspiracy theorist made America a better, more thoughtful place.
Embattled Arizona senator getting dinged unfairly from the left for criticizing conservatives too late
Libertarian History/Philosophy
To some mainstream academics, libertarianism is too bizarre and hideous to even fit in their minds.
Reason editors discuss Democracy in Chains, the future of privacy, Freedom Fest, and Trump's pardoning power.
Democracy in Chains mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
How Vladimir Putin's desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Nancy MacLean's conspiracy tract Democracy in Chains grossly misrepresents limited-government philosophy and the work of Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan.
John Singleton's latest is a hackneyed embrace of debunked conspiracies.
Plus: Notes from a man who recently interviewed Alex Jones yet generated very little controversy
Even the police can't control human-trafficking hysteria anymore, and it could backfire for them.
Robert Groden was ticketed 82 times and arrested twice because the city of Dallas wanted him off the streets.
Erdogan's post-coup crackdown hits Oklahoma Thunder center Enes Kanter.
When the president reprised his you're-fired shtick last night, this wasn't the outcome he expected.
Friday A/V Club: Young Bill O'Reilly on the trail of the Umbrella Man
A helter-skelter podcast with The Daily Beast
Three guidelines for keeping your head
Apparently, opposing Montenegro's inclusion in NATO is the new treason.
Many presidents have spouted conspiracy theories. What's different about Trump is the way he does it.
Adding rioting to racketeering laws could lead to arrests of peaceful organizers, opponents fear.
The thin line between reason and delirium.
Infowars in the age of Trump
Jesse Walker talks about "fake news" with the Nieman Journalism Lab.
Lessons for the debate over Trump and Russia
If a foreign nation's intervention into elections is a crime, America has a LOT of explaining to do.
Don't scapegoat the right for this. You can spread the blame a lot more widely than that.
You don't have to be a Russia booster to dismiss claims Russia hacked the U.S. election.
You can't blame the filmmaker for being annoyed. But audiences are always repurposing art, sometimes in creepy ways, sometimes in ways that are more appealing.
Don't be distracted into debating the wrong things.
While the particulars of Pizzagate are especially outlandish, it's not a narrative that sprung up in an alt-right vacuum. Just look at the coverage of Sherri Papini's case.
'It's a danger that must be addressed and addressed quickly,' she says for the umpteenth time.
And that tradition hasn't been confined to the fringe.
Wikileaks reveals how activists orchestrated a campaign to silence climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr.
Friday A/V Club: Jesse James trutherism
The president-elect claims he would have won the popular vote if Clinton had not benefited from widespread fraud.
From Al Smith and Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump