Don't Be Like the Rainbow Fish
Like so many of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success
Like so many of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success
The science fiction writer appealed to traditionalists with tales of far-flung futures.
Andrew Heaton, host of Something's Off, interviews Nick Gillespie about the much-loved, much-hated term.
Plus: Author Zadie Smith talking cultural appropriation, and Budweiser versus Big Corn
To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, social media is full of people running around with lit matches.
The Nobel laureate had a brilliant, sadly ignored insight that would have short-circuited the worst cultural and political reactions of the past 17 years.
The science fiction maverick helped fill generations of fans with a winning sense of courage and rebellion.
The president and his detractors both bungle scare stories in the outrage-politics contest that passes for our immigration policy debate.
If you are doing work that is expressive of what you believe and hope for, you need to "read" the arc of Philip Roth's career more than any of his individual titles.
The greatest of the New Journalists has died at 88. Take a look at some of Reason's past coverage of him.
Reason editors rate the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump's nuclear politics, the optics of political summits, and the resuscitation of Zora Neale Hurston.
The economist and podcast star talks about intellectual humility, the growing incentives for anti-social behavior, and why Adam Smith is more relevant than ever.
Reason writers debate which fictional dystopia best predicted our current moment.
How libertarians learned to stop worrying and love The Dispossessed
Novelist Lisa De Pasquale sees "politics as entertainment" and worries that Millennials are lost forever to the left.
The former first lady, senator, and secretary of state interprets the classics.
Comedian, civil-rights activist, food guru, and conspiracy theorist made America a better, more thoughtful place.
Friday A/V Club: A beatnik, a president, and a radio station that the FCC wouldn't license
Friday A/V Club: If you're looking for a highbrow way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day...
Trump haters rush to buy the famous dystopian novel.
Friday A/V Club: The most unexpected literary joke in TV history
Finalists for a libertarian literary prize
The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Mandibles pulls no punches when it comes to race, sex, or economics.
Why Henry Huggins feels a little subversive today, and other stories of Klickitat Street
Fatwas never die, even on Election Day.
The Libertarian Futurist Society announces this year's nominees for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
Are you wo(man) enough to take the quiz "What does it mean to be an Amazon?"
The Times has scooped The Onion.
"In any book there could be something to bother somebody."
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley