Mike Solana: 'Thought Crime' Is Essential to Progress
The Founders Fund vice president and Pirate Wires author on supporting heretics as a means of social and economic innovation.
The Founders Fund vice president and Pirate Wires author on supporting heretics as a means of social and economic innovation.
Plus, the editors talk about alternative strategies to deal with Russia.
The Love in the Time of Contagion author says sexual paranoia is on the rise.
Plus, hear the Reason editors' response to President Biden's SOTU.
The United States needs to be realistic about its interests abroad and the limits of our ability to influence events militarily, says the former nominee to be ambassador to Afghanistan.
Figuring out the limits of big-tent libertarianism is no easy matter, but it's central to the movement's success.
Also, Democrats show they can read the polls on mask mandates.
In the new book Free Speech, the Danish activist defends radical self-expression from Socrates to social media.
Plus, the editors' takes on the Super Bowl.
Nearly 90 gag-order bills would ban schools from teaching the grisly particulars of American history. This activist is fighting against the censorship and for school choice.
What Joe Rogan and Canadian truckers tell us about free speech.
The novelist and essayist attacked CNN's handling of Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan—and promptly drew the ugly ire of the podcaster's admirers!
Plus, Supreme Court nominations and affirmative action in schools
Covid lockdowns, insane teacher-union demands, and fed-up parents are fueling historic breakthroughs in all sorts of education reform.
Will bipartisanship fix Joe Biden's presidency?
In The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder, the legendary First Amendment lawyer exposes the tricks of today's "anti-free speech movement."
The San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.
The National Review staffer's new book is a spirited defense of capitalism, individualism, and free speech.
Plus, the CDC's amateur psychoanalyzing.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
This Brooklyn-bred New York Post columnist and her family are fleeing to Florida due to bad education policy and COVID mismanagement.
Time to stop pretending
A new survey of single people confirms that we have more sexual choices than ever. Match.com's chief science adviser explains why such a libertarian outcome doesn't lead to libertinism.
Plus two more topics to howl about...
The Inconvenient Minority author and head of Color Us United says it's time for the country to become truly colorblind.
Plus: A reminder to Bill de Blasio of what "incentive" really means
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The HBO documentary Listening to Kenny G brilliantly explores the gulf between market success and critical acclaim.
The Cuisine and Empire author dishes on the anti-French origins of Turkey Day, why she hates "organic" food, and the genius of Julia Child.
Plus, Biden's Build Back Better passes the house.
The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."
Misinformation and bad policy can only be defeated by robust, open debate in the public square.
The U.S. government doesn't reflect on its spending history, and that shows.
The grandmaster and human rights activist talks about the lessons the world—especially American democratic socialists—must remember three decades after communism's collapse.
Plus, speculation around Virginia's heated gubernatorial race
The Drug Policy Alliance founder and Psychoactive podcast host on how to build a post-prohibitionist America.
Plus: The Reason Roundtable makes talking about taxes interesting.
The former presidential candidate talks about UBI, race relations, ranked-choice voting, his new political party Forward, and how "the duopoly is killing us."
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
The Harvard linguist says Enlightenment reasoning and critical thinking are behind massive increases in material and moral progress.
Rafia Zakaria's controversial Against White Feminism challenges the status of icons like Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Eve Ensler.