How the Great Society Paved the Way for Modern Mass Incarceration
Lyndon Johnson's war on crime
History
Civil War Games and Apps Return Online
Anti-Confederate flag push led to some absurd outcomes that are being rolled back.
Blood and Leviathan
A Stanford historian thinks war is the engine that drives civilization. Is he right?
Confederate Flag Purge Goes Nuts Almost Immediately, Hits Harmless Strategy Games
Apple Store, Amazon drop products that are clearly not about upholding racist or segregationist views.
Gun Rights Benefited Black Americans During the Civil Rights Movement and Still Do
People demand "gun control" while grieving over the racist massacre in Charleston, but gun rights have proven pivotal to black Americans' safety and freedom.
Documentary Uniquely Nasty Chronicles the Government's Long and Cruel War Against Gay Rights
For decades, the feds would actively try to destroy the lives of homosexuals.
Remembering When the American Government Made Gay Citizens the Enemy
Wedding cakes were once the least of their problems.
Clarence Thomas and the Confederate Flag
Understanding Justice Thomas' vote in Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Context of the Church Massacre
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the role it has played in Charleston
Is Obama's War Against ISIS Legal?
The president's rationalization for autocratic military action is a license for unchecked global war.
Magna Carta: A Libertarian Document?
If Magna Carta was a key moment in the West's advancement toward classical liberalism, the trajectory was neither straight nor smooth.
The DIY Flag Designs of the Early Republic
...and the Progressive Era's rather different approach to the national banner
The Making of the Mob Refuses to Mythologize History of Organized Crime
Docudrama series on AMC mixes archival footage with actor recreations.
Friday A/V Club: Vintage Metric Propaganda to Warm Lincoln Chafee's Heart
Plus an anti-metrification argument from the Whole Earth Catalog's Stewart Brand
"The story of technology is in fact the story of textiles."
Epic piece about how the threads that make the clothes we wear are figuratively the fabric of our lives.
Can the President Lawfully Ignore a Supreme Court Decision?
Conservative legal pundits take aim at "judicial supremacy."
NBC's Aquarius Has David Duchovny As a Sixties Cop Tracking Down Charles Manson
Premieres tonight at 9pm ET.
Let's Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill
Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder and serial abuser of executive power. Harriet Tubman championed human freedom.
What Magna Carta Can Teach Us About Libertarian Strategy
It's important not to conflate philosophy and strategy.
Feminism, Frankenstein, and Freedom
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Friday A/V Club: Mort Sahl's Guide to the Political Spectrum
How the left, the right, and the middle looked in 1967
Fewer Christians in the United States: Fourth Great Awakening Over
Just as I predicted seven years ago
Ban Private Schools in the Name of the Collective Good?
Bans on private education have already been tried and rejected in the U.S.
That Time Orson Welles Called for Outlawing Racist Speech
Some arguments have been around for a while.
Open Borders in America: A Look Back and Forward
Featuring highlights from decades of Reason immigration coverage
Gangs and 'Outside Agitators': Baltimore Authorities Pick Their Conspiracy Theories
City leaders put a new spin on some very old tales.
U.S. Capitalism Isn't a 'Free Market'
Centuries of government intervention have distorted society and the economy considerably, and it will take time and patience to fix.
The Rise and Fall of Cybernetic Communism
The Soviets, the cyberneticists, and the SNAFU Principle
Another Bout of Anti-Libertarian Nonsense from the Left-Wing Center for American Progress
Confronting the ugly record of "genocidal progressivism."
The Last Witness to Lincoln's Assassination Goes On a Game Show
It has been 150 years since John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln. This man was there.
More Anti-Libertarian Nonsense from the Left-Wing Center for American Progress
Liberal group tries to whitewash Progressive movement's ugly record on eugenics.
What Libertarians Get Wrong About American History
American history is not an essentially libertarian story.
Friday A/V Club: D.W. Griffith and the Censors
A tale of movies, racism, censorship, and zombies
