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
History
"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
An Alternative History of The Nation
The lost libertarian leanings of a long-lived left-wing magazine
National Review Launches Another Attack on 'Libertarian Constitutionalism'
The conservative magazine doubles down on its defense of judicial deference.
Does Camille Paglia Have Any Hope for Our Modern Society?
The Cultural Critic Discusses Sexuality, Race, Gender, Feminism, and Hillary Clinton
Conservatives, Progressives, and Judicial Deference
A reply to National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru.
The War of 1812 Dramatically Changed American People and Government
"Forget self and think of America," wartime pundits urged.
Friday A/V Club: Woody Woodpecker Resists Wartime Rationing, Fights the Police
The 1943 cartoon Ration Bored
How the War of 1812 Eroded U.S. Liberalism
The War of 1812 helped "the State come into its own" by concentrating power and interest in the national government.
Friday A/V Club: Uncle Sam Reminds You to Visit Your Local Draft Board
An artifact from the age of peacetime conscription
The Elusive Politics of American Sniper
It isn't a hawkish movie, and it isn't conventionally dovish either. But it does have a distinct political perspective.
