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The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
In a new book, left-wing writers debate whether America is going fascist.
It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.
Economist Friedrich Hayek inspired an early foray into electronic cash.
The podcasting pioneer argues that "history is a moving target."
At every stage, a breach on one side provoked an even more extreme response on the other.
Reason has obtained an exclusive copy of Henry Kissinger's immigration files from the 1940s.
Kristy Kay Money and Rolf Jacob Sraubhaar are now suing the city of San Marcos, Texas, saying they're being forced to keep a Klan-linked symbol on the front of their house is a physical taking.
New Jersey fishermen are challenging a 40-year-old precedent that gives executive agencies too much power.
Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.
The pirates in Our Flag Means Death end up more interested in skirting imperial powers than in plundering.
Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz's photos document blues, country, and Cajun music.
The American Buffalo documentary charts the fall and rise of American bison.
It was integrated, it was unionized—and it was a company town.
Americans are wealthier today than in the 1960s. That's not because of Bidenomics; it's because of six decades of progress.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
A young philosopher goes from socialist to reluctant libertarian.
The book Vote Gun criticizes the NRA’s rhetoric but pays little attention to gun control advocates' views.
His speech in Davos challenged the growing worldwide trend of increased government involvement in economic affairs.
In an era when X (formerly Twitter) is blamed for all the ills of the world, here's a case where it did good.
Bad ideas never seem to truly die in Washington.
The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West.
Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.
The weird story of Victor Berger, the Espionage Act, and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
Instead of indulging in politically risky sedition prosecutions of the black press, the government relied on indirect methods of behind-the-scenes manipulation and intimidation.
Friday A/V Club: He wasn't really the character created by the late Norman Lear. But the advertisers did all they could to obscure that.
Plus: an unexpected digression into the world of Little Debbie dessert snack cakes.
But his cynical brand of realism did at least lead him to caution against some of America's ideological military adventures.
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The new film is an anti-epic about the petty awfulness of history's great men.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
Richard M. Weaver seemed to question whether liberal order was compatible with human flourishing. By the end of his life, he saw individual liberty as more than incidental to the good society.
In The Rest Is History, two historians strike a pleasing balance between fact-dense narratives and witty banter.
Q&A with the author of the book Elon Musk calls "an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right."
The book blames foreign subversives for ideas long rooted in American life.
A masterful epic from one of Hollywood's most important, most ambitious filmmakers.
The Hamas-embraced idea that Jews have no place in Israel fosters extremism on both sides.
New York's Raines Law meant to crack down on drinking, but it instead gave rise to an industry of hotel brothels.
Conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby explains why he reconsidered his previous favorable view of Columbus. The man was a brutal promoter of slavery - even by moral standards understood in his own time.
A Republican, a Communist, and a Catholic conservative walk onto a movie set...
Historian Erika Dyck contextualizes the deep roots of and battles over LSD, psilocybin, and other psychoactive substances.
When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law.
Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.
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