Steven Pinker Wants Enlightenment Now!
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.
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Fear of a Free, Prosperous Internet
Big tech businesses serve America. Should we be alarmed?
Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
Sign Referencing Civil War Hero Is Sexual Harassment, Says Massachusetts Lawmaker
Rep. Michelle DuBois wants to remove a statehouse sign that reads "General Hooker Entrance" because it is an affront to "women's dignity."
When a Mash Note to a War Criminal Hit the Top 40
Friday A/V Club: My Lai's musical apologists
Philip Payton Jr.: The Crusading Capitalist Who Outwitted New York's Racist Landlords
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
The Death of Liberalism and the Life of Johnny Cash: Sirius XM Radio
Listen to Matt Welch interview authors on everything from Pittsburgh's Black renaissance to the worldwide hostility toward George Soros
The Inconvenient Individualism of Frederick Douglass
A bizarre New York Times piece knocks down a strawman.
Making the Fairness Doctrine Great Again
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.
The Libertarianism of Frederick Douglass: Podcast
Damon Root on how the famous abolitionist was also an outspoken classical liberal.
CNN's Patty Hearst Docuseries Shows Surprising Depth
Jeffrey Toobin's book on the kidnapped heiress was a mess. This telling is much better.
The Olympics Can't Transcend Politics. Just Ask the Nazis.
Sports, and sport broadcasting, can never be apolitical when nations are going head-to-head on the field of play.
When the Constitution Was 'At War With Itself,' Frederick Douglass Fought on the Side of Freedom
A new appreciation of the great abolitionist on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Wormwood's Bad Trip Peddles CIA Conspiracies
The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.
Split the Baby. Drink the Poison. Carry the Hot Iron. Swear on the Bible
How courts exploit superstition to uncover hidden truths
The Massive Higher-Ed Scam You've Never Heard About: Podcast
Renegade University's Thaddeus Russell on the federal-accreditation racket, why the Ivys are terrified of competition, and how postmodernism is libertarianism's ally.
GW Students Organize to Fight Oppression By Oppressing Reading Choices
Obvious propaganda should be labeled propaganda, obviously.
The Original Rock 'n' Roll Guitar God Was Actually a Goddess
Friday A/V Club: All hail Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Churchill's Antidote to Political Rage
Things are not more serious than they were in Britain in 1940.
Statist Just-So Stories
The author of Seeing Like a State casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom about the cradle of civilization.
Prosthetic Limbs Make Great Weapons: A History
When artificial arms become armaments in the eyes of the law.
Sex and Communism
The times and trajectory of Max Eastman, progressive turned "libertarian conservative"
The Secret Meaning of Thanksgiving Dinner
Food historian Rachel Laudan explains why we eat what we eat on "turkey day" - and it has nothing to do with the Pilgrims.
How Grocery Stores Got Good
The Amazon/Whole Foods deal is just the latest chapter in a long story of progress.
Who Really Held the First Thanksgiving in the United States?
The important thing about the holiday is not who started the tradition but the humble and grateful spirit the tradition instills.
Thankful for Property Rights on Thanksgiving Day
Private property became the foundation for building the most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
The Insatiable Utopia
The Soviet elite who built a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and paid with their lives
For Heaven's Sake, Just Release the Rest of the JFK Files
Is Donald Trump really too weak to do this?
Not Even Lincoln Is Spared the Wrath of the Statue Topplers
Who would have guessed the author of the Gettysburg Address was a white supremacist?
Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia
Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment.
Mr. Smith Goes to Court
Friday A/V Club: The military sued Frank Capra, so he made a movie about it.
The Great James Buchanan Conspiracy
A controversial attack on a libertarian-leaning economist mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
