How Antonin Scalia Shaped—and Misshaped—American Law
The late Supreme Court justice's mixed legacy on liberty and the Constitution
Obituaries
Free-Market Education Radical Andrew J. Coulson, RIP
Author and Cato scholar wrote path-breaking book Market Education: The Unknown History.
Paul Kantner, R.I.P.
Radical and science-fictional Jefferson Airplane musician made the sixties the sixties--and kept growing.
The Death of Buddy Cianci: Two-Time Mayor of Providence, Two-Time Convicted Felon
One powerful man's corruption and brutality
Artificial Intelligence Pioneer and Transhumanist Marvin Minsky Dies at Age 88
Until the time that Minsky is either revived or uploaded, may he rest in peace
David Bowie Was an Emissary From Our Own Hyper-Personalized Future
His insistent, playful shape-shifting helped to create a freer, more individualized world.
R.I.P. Hollywood Horror Master Wes Craven
Director of teen-horror classics "Scream" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" dies at 76.
How Terry Pratchett Made Me a Libertarian
The fantasy author whose Discworld novels talked up liberty and self-ownership has died at 66.
He Lived Long and He Prospered: R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy, the Man Who Was Spock
His role on Star Trek paved the way for decades of geek culture.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Nathaniel Branden, RIP, and The Pursuit of Happiness
Pursuit of happiness intersects with political freedom
Life and Death of a Russian Freedom Fighter
There is a certain symbolism in the fact that Valeria Novodvorskaya died just as the Putin regime was being fully exposed as the gangster state that she had always said it was.
'She Literally Walked the Streets of Downtown Manhattan Like a Gay Superhero'
Storme DeLarverie, RIP
Friday A/V Club: When Satire, Slapstick, and Surrealism Collide
The long-suppressed Soviet satire My Grandmother, plus a tribute to Bob Hoskins.
The Third Lesson of Nelson Mandela
With great foreign intervention comes flawed moral reasoning.
RIP Ronald Coase, the Economist Who Hated Math
Ronald Coase's reach covered everything from the air we breathe to the airwaves through which we communicate.
