Government Keeps Meddling With Private Company Decisions
In the Twitter Files, every conversation with a government official contains the same warning: You can do it happily, or we’ll make you.
In the Twitter Files, every conversation with a government official contains the same warning: You can do it happily, or we’ll make you.
The consequences of our obsession with urban dystopias and utopias
Also, there are battle whales.
The new book Inventor of the Future prefers to show him as a credit hog.
For 54 years, we've been reporting on what comes next and how to expand "free minds and free markets."
Employment is an ultimatum game, where playing along might get workers less than employers, but refusing to play gets everyone zero.
Weir's books take seriously the limits of human knowledge and planning when it comes to space travel.
What does "longtermism" offer those of us who favor limited government and free markets?
The last time there was a manned mission to the moon, Pong had just been released on Atari.
A new generation of companies has made space travel affordable.
Can the government turn $80 billion into $204 billion? Probably not.
Rather than being replaced by A.I., humans should plan to work with it.
We already know what happens when governments try to impose prohibitions: messy, deadly black markets.
The future of techno-animism in a world filled with machine intelligence.
People believe and say things that aren't true all of the time, of course. But efforts by public officials to combat them may well make things worse, not better.
Born in communist Poland and disgusted by Silicon Valley communists, Pilat is making "heroic portraits of machines" and defending Ayn Rand.
Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.
Which boycotts, cancellations, and sanctions are defensible and well-targeted against the state actors who are responsible for the attack on Ukraine?
The service bot will revolutionize warehouses, hospitals, farms, and maybe your home.
The issue has never been a lack of funds for infrastructure; it's that the money frequently ends up getting spent on something else via a highly politicized decision-making process.
It's easy for many people to see the harm that guns are involved in every day in America, but much harder for them to see the harm that gun prohibition causes.
After doing the jobs of teacher, coach, and cafeteria monitor for more than a year, many parents resented being told to sit down and shut up.
Bid now to win the first-ever Reason NFT, featuring Reason Roundtable regulars Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, and Nick Gillespie.
Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule carried the 90-year-old former Star Trek actor and three crewmembers 66 miles above the Earth's surface.
The bloody, tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a predictable disaster. It was also an incredible, surprising anti-war victory.
Innovations in epidemiological statistics, artificial fertilizer, toilets, sanitation systems, and vaccines have allowed billions of people to flourish until old age.
Extremists on the left and the right are much closer to each other than either side would like to admit.
I don't know the correct level of content moderation by Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Amazon, and neither do you.
For more than a decade, politicians have moved toward seizing short-term wins through any mechanism available to them.
The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.
Somehow, policy makers slid from "never waste a crisis" to "everything is a crisis," a development that is particularly irksome during an actual crisis.
Our long record of peaceful transfers of power now has an asterisk on it.
Billionaires may well have enabled our greatest (only?) policy successes in 2020.
COVID-19 is reigniting old debates about zoning, public health, urban planning, and suburban sprawl.
Fans of limited government have a lot to be happy about. It's much harder to go big when you are constantly at risk of being told to go home.
How seriously should we take the threats of protesters who recently built guillotines outside of Jeff Bezos' house?
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.
Reason asked writers who have been on the criminal justice beat for years to lay out serious proposals for reforms with a fighting chance of being implemented.
Sometimes, it's good to take a step back
Sometime in 2021, the American people will be presented with a reorganized and newly empowered federal public health bureaucracy. As time passes, it will grow in size and scope.
As long as it's neither safe nor legal to conduct normal business, Bastiat's seen economic activity is beyond our reach. The unseen doubly so.