History

Economics

Temptations of Empire

Two new studies reveal the inherent instability of imperialism.

John Payne | 7.15.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

Betty Ford Dances with the Sword of Liberation

Jesse Walker | 7.12.2011 10:54 AM

Politics

How George W. Bush Fulfilled FDR's Legacy

Jesse Walker | 7.1.2011 11:05 AM

Politics

Document Dump of the Day: The Yippie Files

Jesse Walker | 6.28.2011 4:24 PM

Policy

All in the Gay Family

Same-sex marriage existed long before it was legalized.

Jesse Walker | 6.27.2011 10:30 AM

Economics

Michael Barone on Nostalgianomics

Matt Welch | 6.23.2011 9:30 AM

Politics

Happy Birthday, Magna Carta

Damon Root | 6.15.2011 4:11 PM

Policy

Was Nixon a Drug Warrior or a Reformer?

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2011 1:35 PM

Politics

That '80s Show

Did Michael Jordan and Michael J. Fox invent modern individualism?

Jesse Walker | 6.10.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

Q and A with John J. Miller

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 6.9.2011 11:45 AM

Politics

National Review's Joel Miller: "Palin basically got the whole story wrong"

Matt Welch | 6.7.2011 11:18 AM

Politics

FDR Solicitor General Lied to Supreme Court about Japanese Internment

Damon Root | 5.31.2011 2:39 PM

Politics

Notes from the Underground

The rise of the alternative media is a story that goes beyond the New Left.

Jesse Walker | 5.23.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

William Donald Schaefer's Real Legacy

Jesse Walker | 5.17.2011 10:33 AM

Policy

When Science Discovered Toxic Motherhood

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.9.2011 3:58 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Suburban Punks Rule

Brian Doherty | 5.3.2011 6:30 AM

Policy

Smallpox and Civil Liberties

Damon Root | 4.29.2011 2:20 PM

Culture

Bill Blackbeard, R.I.P.

Brian Doherty | 4.26.2011 4:33 PM

Culture

Phil Dick Tells Punks About Secession

Jesse Walker | 4.22.2011 3:23 PM

Policy

The Forgotten Tax Rebels of the Great Depression

Damon Root | 4.15.2011 10:06 AM

Policy

Good ol' Fashioned Inflation Like in the Late 1970s

Brian Doherty | 4.13.2011 1:46 PM

Politics

More on Libertarianism and the Civil War

Damon Root | 4.12.2011 4:21 PM

Politics

Fort Sumter and the Impending Crisis: Reason Writers on the Civil War

Reason Staff | 4.12.2011 9:20 AM

Politics

Those Who Remember History Wrongly Are Condemned to Repeat It, Government Spending and Recession Division

Brian Doherty | 4.8.2011 1:14 PM

Culture

The Spook Racket

Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead

Damon Root | 4.5.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Sorry, Charley

Was John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley a fraud?

Bill Steigerwald | 4.4.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

In Dubious Travels

Jesse Walker | 4.3.2011 7:25 PM

Policy

The Waste Land, by Newton Minow

Jesse Walker | 4.1.2011 1:57 PM

Politics

First Casualty of War: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Brian Doherty | 3.29.2011 1:45 PM

Politics

Profiled: Alex Jones, Self-Trained Historian

Michael Moynihan | 3.28.2011 6:50 PM

Politics

Rockin' in the Second World

Jesse Walker | 3.24.2011 9:26 AM

Economics

Republican Tariffs vs. Free Trade

Damon Root | 3.16.2011 1:56 PM

Civil Liberties

MPD for the FBI

Jesse Walker | 3.16.2011 11:48 AM

Politics

Will Scalia's Angry Dissents Win the Future?

Damon Root | 3.10.2011 3:10 PM

Politics

Abortion, Liberalism, and Limiting Government Power

Damon Root | 3.8.2011 2:03 PM

Politics

Gene Shalit, Soupy Sales, and History's Greatest Monster

Jesse Walker | 3.4.2011 8:13 PM

Politics

Has Anybody Seen Jimmy Carter Lately?

At this point, would America settle for a new 1980s?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.4.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Teaching People Power

Gene Sharp talks about nonviolent conflict, the Middle East, and why we need to rethink politics

Jesse Walker | 2.25.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Whitewashing the History of Organized Labor

Damon Root | 2.23.2011 3:32 PM

Politics

People Who Live in the Shade

Revisionist historian Thaddeus Russell on American renegades, delusional socialists, left-libertarians, and Obama fans

Jesse Walker | 2.22.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Reasoners on The Freedom Watch With Da Judge: Nick Gillespie Talks Down Presidents on Their Very Special Day

Reason Staff | 2.21.2011 12:34 PM

Politics

The FBI on The Anarchist Cookbook

Jesse Walker | 2.16.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: The Spirit of Mount Vernon-The Return of George Washington's Whiskey

Reason Staff | 2.16.2011 3:00 PM

Communism

Communist Tract of the Day

Jesse Walker | 2.11.2011 11:01 PM

Politics

Are We All Originalists Now?

The debate over ObamaCare highlights a growing division on the legal left

Damon Root | 2.11.2011 12:00 PM