Psychology/Psychiatry

Politics

The Evolution of Liberty

A discussion about brain, belief, and politics

Ronald Bailey | 9.13.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Who Will Protect Children From Dangerously Exciting Cartoons?

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2011 3:32 PM

Politics

Why Are People "Irrationally" Generous to Strangers?

New research finds that nice guys tend to finish first.

Ronald Bailey | 7.26.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Timothy Leary Speaks from Beyond the Grave

Jesse Walker | 7.5.2011 12:25 PM

Politics

A 'Compelling Interest' to Restrict Video Games Requires More Than Pediatricians' Prejudices

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2011 12:01 PM

Policy

Marcia Angell on 'The Illusions of Psychiatry' (Part II)

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 12:04 PM

Policy

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything: 20 to 30

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2011 4:06 PM

Policy

The Government's Addiction Expert Says We Like What We Like Because We Like It

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2011 6:27 PM

Policy

Half of Us Are Mentally Ill (and the Other Half Are Undiagnosed)

Jacob Sullum | 6.13.2011 4:47 PM

Politics

Is Smoking a Choice or an Addiction? Why Can't It Be Both?

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

When Science Discovered Toxic Motherhood

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.9.2011 3:58 PM

Policy

Can't Shake the Shake Shakes

Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2011 1:39 PM

Politics

It's Hard to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future

The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.

Ronald Bailey | 4.5.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Charlie Sheen: Bi-Polar D-Bag or Szaszian Hero?

Nick Gillespie | 3.2.2011 9:01 PM

Politics

A Drug So Powerful It Causes Aggression and Passivity

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2011 12:56 PM

Policy

Sticklers for Procedure

Ohio's Supreme Court reverses an acquittal in yet another outrageous sex abuse prosecution.

Radley Balko | 2.14.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

No One Is Suggesting Salvia Made Him Do It—Except Us

Jacob Sullum | 1.21.2011 11:09 AM

Policy

Reefer Madness Spreads to the U.K.

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 12:01 PM

Policy

Looking for Loughners

Would laxer commitment rules make us safer?

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Cliff Kincaid's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2011 4:27 PM

Politics

Looking for Loughners

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2011 12:03 PM

Politics

If Mental Illness Made Him Do It, Why Punish Him?

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2011 12:02 PM

Politics

David Frum on Jared Loughner's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2011 5:56 PM

Politics

The Shootings in Arizona: A Reading List

Jesse Walker | 1.10.2011 10:23 AM

Policy

'There Is No Definition of a Mental Disorder'

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2011 1:03 PM

Policy

'I Wish I Could Talk in Technicolor'

Jacob Sullum | 1.5.2011 4:43 PM

Civil Liberties

Wild Turkey

Jesse Walker | 12.8.2010 10:29 AM

Economics

The Eleventh Commandment: Punish Free Riders

Religion and the evolutionary origin of cooperation

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2010 4:40 PM

Politics

The Science of Libertarian Morality

A new social psychology study explores the moral formation of the libertarian personality.

Ronald Bailey | 11.2.2010 4:30 PM

Science & Technology

Therapists to Miners: We'll Come to Your Emotional Rescue

Jesse Walker | 10.14.2010 3:32 PM

Politics

You've Changed, Man

Jesse Walker | 8.14.2010 12:01 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Stone Age Minds—A conversation with evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

Reason Staff | 8.5.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Clinical Study of MDMA Confirms Benefits Noted by Therapists Before It Was Banned

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2010 4:40 PM

Politics

Pre-Crime Detention Based on Enumerated (Yet Curiously Unspecified) Powers

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2010 2:24 PM

Policy

Mozart Effect: As Bogus As the Plot of Amadeus

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.11.2010 3:10 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Inept Interviewers,' 'Shoddy Investigation'

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2010 1:23 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Wasn't That a Suggestive Question?' 'So What?'

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2010 5:59 PM

Policy

Psychedelics and the F-Word

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2010 3:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Corporate Diversity Programs Still Suck

Jesse Walker | 3.23.2010 9:36 AM

Policy

Did Marijuana Kill John Patrick Bedell?

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 7:56 PM

Culture

Friday Fun Link: I'm Just A Life Coach With A Dream

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.26.2010 10:30 AM

Economics

From a Nudge to a Shove? Will Behavioral Economics Become a New Form of Coercion?

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2010 12:21 PM

Policy

A Cocaine Treatment That Boosts Cocaine Consumption

Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2010 2:58 PM

Civil Liberties

Beyond Pleasantville

Permissiveness wasn't born in the '60s

Jesse Walker | 12.16.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

NIAAA Official Says Alcoholism 'Isn't Usually' a 'Chronic, Relapsing Disease'

Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2009 1:26 PM