Review: Choose Your Own Adventure in American Futures
The author, whose libertarian leanings are evident, makes readers consider the impact of the choices they make in the voting booth.
The author, whose libertarian leanings are evident, makes readers consider the impact of the choices they make in the voting booth.
"If he goes down, so will journalism," Assange's father John Shipton says in the documentary.
The Apple TV+ film tells the story of an entrepreneur who helped bring a Soviet designer's game to the world.
Pioneers of Capitalism chronicles centuries of bottom-up economic evolution in the Netherlands.
Futuristically thrilling but aesthetically limited
In the Pokemon universe, there's no central government and vital social services are provided by informal clubs.
Pirate Enlightenment documents an interracial experiment in stateless self-governance.
The show's final season boldly declared that success requires putting yourself first and accepting the trade-offs.
The Little Mermaid was a dull exercise in box-checking. Spider-Verse uses its diverse cast as an opportunity for narrative delights.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is more Rob Reiner than J.R.R. Tolkien.
The 19th century reformer's influence on 20th century progressives, conservatives, and libertarians
Freedom's Dominion argues Southern history was animated by "racialized radical anti-statism." The case is lacking.
Asset forfeiture isn't funny—but what if it involves tripping bunnies and psychedelic mushrooms?
The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map.
Too few remember the pope's opposition to Polish building regulation.
Author Kaitlyn Tiffany offers a history of fandoms.
The Case for Christian Nationalism advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."
Author Alex Cody Foster went deep with McAfee for months in an ill-fated attempt to ghostwrite his memoir.
Author Leigh Goodmark's end goals of abolishing prisons and defunding police are hard to swallow.
Politicians in the last century accused pinball of being mob activity.
Knives Out director Rian Johnson offers a twisted vision of the American economy as one populated by makers and moochers.
Human bonds transcend ideology in the HBO series.
The HBO movie muddies important distinctions.
Predictably, the machine-learning robot starts killing.
In one sequence, the Jerry Seinfeld stand-in stood onstage at a comedy club for minutes without saying a word.
The video game is a 100-year simulation of the Victorian era where the player has centralized control over the government of their chosen country.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's most controversial book has finally been fully translated into English.
In this film, it's mean and funny enough to work.
The book's 12 thematic chapters are dense and rich—like flan, but good.
The HBO series features what Ayn Rand would call "second-handers."
His most popular book, The Enormous Room, was recently reprinted for its 100th anniversary.
A new novel by Reason contributor Kat Rosenfield
Nita A. Farahany's The Battle for Your Brain shows how neurotech can help, or hurt, human liberty.
Momfluenced bemoans unrealistic expectations set on American mothers but then establishes new ones.
McDonald's invested in some spiffy new toys, but almost everything else stayed the same.
Hating tech billionaires is The Current Thing.
Jason Statham in an underpowered Guy Ritchie spy flick.
In Meme Wars, so-called "disinformation" experts call for the suppression of more ideas and speakers to protect democracy.
The glowing documentary makes no mention of her failures or even shortcomings as speaker.
Historian Jeff Guinn's account focuses on the ATF's oft-overlooked fiasco in the 1993 affair rather than the FBI's widely reported involvement.
These superb books recount events from the viewpoints of both soldier and statesman, providing a greater understanding of the why and how of the Civil War.
Elon Musk’s shambolic takeover may not have been great for Twitter, but it was fantastic for Mastodon.
Jacob Grier and Brett Adams help aspiring home bartenders build a bar via a carefully sequenced collection of about two dozen bottles.
Perhaps unintentionally, this podcast holds up a mirror to the social justice movements of today.
Praising violence as a response to speech we don't like is a hallmark not of admirable Americanism but of oppressive regimes like Hitler’s.
The lightly fictionalized historical drama shows that it’s hard for staid institutions to grow and change with the times, especially when they aren’t forced to.
The Netflix show ostensibly satirizes government control, but it is not made for anyone truly suspicious of government power.
The Golden Enclaves is the third installment of Novik's best-selling Scholomance trilogy.
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