Jimmy Wales: What Wikipedia Got Right About Social Media
The co-founder of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" talks about the power of decentralization and the rise in subscription models for journalism.
The co-founder of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" talks about the power of decentralization and the rise in subscription models for journalism.
"I am not okay with you making laws that prevent me from doing what I feel is good for me."
"I am not okay with you making laws that prevent me from doing what I feel is good for me."
The education pioneer's authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children's independence.
The tension between two libertarianisms in the big tent
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
Figuring out the limits of big-tent libertarianism is no easy matter, but it's central to the movement's success.
Politics isn’t going away, so we can at least try to make it less bad.
It's time to spread cheer. Reason is here to help.
The Reason webathon is sooooo close to $420,000! Just a couple more tokes over the line, pals!
"Even products as simple as a pencil have to use wood from Brazil and graphite from India before it comes together at a factory in the United States," Biden said.
Plus, how his tax hikes won't actually help anyone, either.
Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything.
A back and forth on whether fusionism retains its vitality in the 21st century, or whether it ever had any vitality at all.
Plus, what's going down in the Libertarian Party?
Liberty and virtue are not merely compatible, but complementary, or so I would suggest.
Plus: Supreme Court to rule on Catholic foster agencies, tech associations sue over social media law in Florida, and more…
A new study shows that, far from increasing selfishness, individualistic societies feature higher levels of altruism.
"There may be no inherent conflict between doing well and doing good".
Plus: Is the coronavirus vaccine the most libertarian vaccine yet?
And yet neither Democrats nor Republicans represent those principles.
Economist Meir Kohn explains how kibbutz life helped him understand the flaws of socialism and the value of property rights.
From "stay hungry, stay foolish" to "try everything, take nothing off the table."
The former Merry Prankster and Whole Earth Catalog founder talks about psychedelics, computers, bringing back woolly mammoths, and his new documentary.
In the years since the Cold War, conservatives have lost sight of the relationship between liberty and personal responsibility.
My recently published article on the NCC project outlines several important areas of agreement between conservative, libertarian, and progressive participants.
Numerous women claimed on social media that they were mistreated at YAL events and that their concerns were ignored by leadership.
My response to a badly inaccurate review of my book that portrays me as claiming otherwise.
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
The NCC put together teams of conservatives, progressives, and libertarians to propose their own rewrites of the Constitution. All three teams came up with interesting ideas - and with some notable areas of agreement.
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Which leaves the U.S. without a major party even slightly inclined to leave people alone to manage their own affairs.
Don't underestimate the civilization-saving powers of respecting private property and generally minding your own business.
There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist on Joe Biden, free speech, and leaving The Intercept for Substack.
Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
The former Reason editor discusses her new book, The Fabric of Civilization, and why she's optimistic about the future.
Plus: Behind the Trump press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine sees early success, and more...
What went right and wrong in 2020, the L.P.’s internal divisions, and the party’s strategy for the future.
Libertarians would have a more promising future if they spent less time worrying about national elections and more time working politically at the local level.
The president's warnings about the destructive potential of a Democratic White House should make us skeptical of the powers of the executive—not just the person who wields them.
Both candidates have serious flaws. But a Trump victory would be a much greater evil than the alternative.
Recent works by longtime intellectual antagonists Cass Sunstein (author of "Too Much Information") and Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman (authors of "Escaping Paternalism") have a surprising amount of common ground.
Shopping at Target. Dining outdoors. No activity these days is too mundane for protesters to shout at you for it.
What can libertarianism offer America in the midst of the economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic?
School choice, restrained executive power, no taxes, and less military fighting abroad!
Fox News host's The Plus is a funny yet serious argument about making politics matter less in your life.
Dallas officials pulled the plug on the event just three days before it was to begin, costing the libertarian student group $200,000.