Arizona's GOP Has Become a Trump Cult
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
Shopping at Target. Dining outdoors. No activity these days is too mundane for protesters to shout at you for it.
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Independent education means a wide range of approaches as to what children are taught.
Cancel culture is real, but Hamilton is safe.
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An "oil spill" of politics has polluted American life, leaving little room for common ground.
Those smitten by John Wayne, Robert E. Lee, or even Joseph Stalin should commission statues on their own property. The rest of us have more important issues to debate.
We should celebrate our fandom on our own dime, and on our own property.
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
Americans will survive the virus, but American political life is sicker than ever.
Anti-porn crusaders get their panties in a twist about a uptick in porn consumption during COVID-19.
A uniform national response risks doing more harm than good in a nation that’s not uniform.
Did the outrage that caused it to get shelved also return? (Spoiler: It has not)
Americans are deeply divided about our political options and even about each other’s fundamental decency.
The company was criticized for serving ICE employees, then criticized for apologizing.
A Department of Justice lawyer in every pot.
Defenders, and enemies, of gun access need to get used to their fight being more cultural than political.
After outraged responses from Fox and Trump, Universal yanks The Hunt from its schedule.
Deflections, generational conflict, and misleading data abound.
From Josh Hawley to Kamala Harris, online free speech is under attack.
The debate over Donald Trump's "go back" tweets regarding four minority Democratic members of Congress has centered on the unmistakably bigoted words that he wrote, but has missed the deeper point.
Why libertarians should care about the illiberal Right as much as the illiberal Left.
Hawley is selling it as a way to fight tech-company "bias" against Republicans. Don't believe him.
Today it's creators, not cops, who want to banish R. Crumb, onetime king of the comics underground.
Is referring to someone as an "Easter worshipper" really an attempt to minimize their Christian identity?
The self-described "a-hole" defends his abrasive brand of in-your-face anarchism.
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Even for conservatives who believe in individualism, group identity trumps all.
A lame headline provokes even lamer charges of incitement to violence.
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Paying customers may be the next targets for social media "deplatforming."
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
Journalists, like other Americans, will have an easier time only when the struggle for control of government stops mattering so much.
Don't mistake this election for a Trump-inspired victory - Quebec's toxic anti-immigration politics are home grown.
So long as anything resembling legitimate elections continue to be held, no political coalition will gain a permanent lock on the future.
Why an attack on "cultural Marxism" isn't compatible with a fight for liberty
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Richard Nixon's battle with Timothy Leary puts today's culture wars to shame.
After oral arguments last year, Stephanie Slade correctly observed that "justices might have found a sort of get-out-of-jail-free card." Also on the Reason Podcast: Bill Clinton, Roseanne, Samantha Bee, Kim Kardashian, and maybe the worst celebrity of the week, Larry Kudlow.
Reflexive "outgroup" outrage and retaliation just leads into tit-for-tat wars.
Conservatives want to hold the left to the Roseanne standard.
So why has a generation of wayward young men welcomed him as their messiah?
The MSNBC host kind of sucked on gay issues 10 years ago. So did most Democratic moderates.
Progressives push their luck with their totalitarian insistence that everybody is with them or against them on guns and so much else.
He's made the party's economic agenda an extension of the culture wars.
The party's commitment to fiscal restraint and limited government have vanished
Forget the debates over laws that can't make a difference; the heat and noise is really all about political tribes attempting to inconvenience each other.