Why 'Gun Culture' Is Every Bit a Part of America as 'Speech Culture': Podcast
David Harsanyi's First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun documents the unique presence of firearms in U.S. life.
David Harsanyi's First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun documents the unique presence of firearms in U.S. life.
Political correctness isn't a communist plot.
The 1944 ruling validated FDR's order to relocate and imprison 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants during World War II.
Jesse Walker talks conspiracies on the War College podcast.
Friday A/V Club: Anthony Comstock and the bawdy cylinders
Friday A/V Club: Harpoon battles six-gun in Terror in a Texas Town.
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Sometimes censorship is a public-private partnership.
Friday A/V Club: The wild world of low-budget survivalist videos
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The Suicide of the West author explains his anti-Trumpism, evolution on culture-war issues, and growing attraction to libertarianism.
Reading Zora Neale Hurston's study of the life of the last "black cargo" and watching Westworld
In 18th century France, wearing the wrong fabric could get you in big trouble.
Book-based bioseries delves into the life of a rocket scientist with a dark side.
Twitter's Jack Dorsey apologized for eating at Chick-fil-A. What does that have to do with Donald Trump? Plenty.
How prosperity, AIDS, and pop culture changed people's minds
Friday A/V Club: Americans born before the Civil War speak on camera.
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
Friday A/V Club: The boxer who just got a posthumous presidential pardon was a central figure in one of the first battles over movie censorship.
The on-again, off-again flirtation between Mother Russia and the deplorables of Europe
Nick Gillespie talks to former president of the ACLU Nadine Strossen about the difficulties and importance of free speech.
To win the war on cancer, we must recapture the bold spirit of the early days of discovery.
More than 1,000 economists (including Nobel Prize winners) have penned an open letter to the White House, warning not to repeat mistakes of the past.
Historians will have to wait another three years, and maybe longer, before they can get their hands on the rest of the government's assassination documents.
Today people are shamed for not sharing personal information about themselves.
Trump's Syria-related tweet once again betrays a terrifying lack of historical awareness.
Prodding private companies into self-censorship is a dangerous government tradition.
Four decades after its creation, Gary Gygax's fantasy world of unbounded choice is more appealing than ever.
Pope Francis is part of the problem, nuclear energy is part of the solution, and libertarians need to admit that not every regulation will turn us into Venezuela.
Big tech businesses serve America. Should we be alarmed?
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
Rep. Michelle DuBois wants to remove a statehouse sign that reads "General Hooker Entrance" because it is an affront to "women's dignity."
Friday A/V Club: My Lai's musical apologists
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
Listen to Matt Welch interview authors on everything from Pittsburgh's Black renaissance to the worldwide hostility toward George Soros
A bizarre New York Times piece knocks down a strawman.
Media bias has been far less harmful than media regulation bias. That can seal off whole markets and make everyone who's left too nervous to speak freely.
Damon Root on how the famous abolitionist was also an outspoken classical liberal.