Staff Reviews

Politics

How Pat Buchanan Conquered America

Reliving the 1990s in the 2012 GOP race

Brian Doherty | 5.17.2012 1:30 PM

Culture

The Dictator

The gags are more exhausted than Gaddafi's regime as Sacha Baron Cohen graduates from documentary punking to standard comedy.

Kurt Loder | 5.15.2012 3:30 PM

Culture

Dark Shadows

Tired blood

Kurt Loder | 5.11.2012 9:15 AM

Politics

The Technocratic Mind

A hagiography of the Obama administration's most powerful wonks reveals more than it intends.

Peter Suderman | 5.9.2012 4:00 PM

Culture

The Avengers

Gods and monsters

Kurt Loder | 5.4.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Taft for President!

Peter Suderman | 5.2.2012 10:05 AM

Culture

Worse Than Hitler

Brian Doherty | 5.2.2012 10:01 AM

Policy

Anarchy in the usA

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.2.2012 10:00 AM

Policy

Driven to Drink

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 10:00 AM

Culture

Headhunters, The Five-Year Engagement, and The Raven

Love and laughs and quite a few corpses

Kurt Loder | 4.27.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Darling Companion and The Moth Diaries

Tired blood

Kurt Loder | 4.20.2012 9:00 AM

Politics

The Business of Medical Marijuana

Two new books about "ganjaprenurialism" capture the confused and confusing state of U.S pot laws.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.13.2012 1:30 PM

Culture

The Cabin in the Woods and Lockout

Teen terror reinvented, another dystopian future regurgitated.

Kurt Loder | 4.13.2012 9:00 AM

Policy

Katherine Mangu-Ward on the Medical Marijuana Business in The Wall Street Journal

Reason Staff | 4.9.2012 9:35 AM

Culture

The Hunter and ATM

Stalkers

Kurt Loder | 4.6.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Zombiepocalypse Now

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.2.2012 10:00 AM

Culture

Political Intelligence

Peter Suderman | 4.2.2012 9:55 AM

Culture

Pro–Park Avenue Pamphleteer

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.2.2012 9:45 AM

Culture

Recommendation: Read Mark Dery, Soar With Winners

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.1.2012 9:43 PM

Culture

The Hunger Games

A franchise is born.

Kurt Loder | 3.22.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

Seeking Justice, Delicacy, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Personal bests

Kurt Loder | 3.15.2012 6:00 PM

Politics

The Great TARP Cover-Up

Some folks want to pretend government intervention never happened.

Nick Gillespie | 3.12.2012 8:30 AM

Culture

John Carter and Silent House

Strange surroundings

Kurt Loder | 3.8.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

Let the Bullets Fly

East meets western.

Kurt Loder | 3.2.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

Being Flynn

Robert De Niro shines as an invisible man in the invisible city.

Kurt Loder | 3.1.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

The Allure of Anarchy

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.1.2012 9:01 AM

Culture

All the Poop That's News

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Inventing America's Past

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.1.2012 8:39 AM

Culture

Reading Is Fundamental (for Some)

Brian Doherty | 3.1.2012 8:37 AM

Culture

Texas Wit

Ronald Bailey | 2.19.2012 9:45 AM

Culture

Thin Ice and The Secret World of Arrietty

Danger zones

Kurt Loder | 2.16.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

In Darkness and Safe House

No direction home

Kurt Loder | 2.9.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

Neal Stephenson's Action

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.6.2012 12:20 PM

Culture

Behind the Music

Mike Riggs | 2.6.2012 11:19 AM

Policy

Cancer Cure Crimes

Jacob Sullum | 2.6.2012 10:20 AM

Culture

W.E., Chronicle, and The Woman in Black

Various kinds of scary

Kurt Loder | 2.2.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

The Grey and Man on a Ledge

Desperate measures

Kurt Loder | 1.26.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

Contraband and We Need to Talk About Kevin

A movie with no purpose, a woman with no hope.

Kurt Loder | 1.12.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

The Devil Inside

Satan's talk show

Kurt Loder | 1.6.2012 12:00 PM

Culture

Holy Terrible

Peter Suderman | 1.3.2012 7:00 AM

Culture

Spinoza's Abominations

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.3.2012 6:06 AM

Culture

The Iron Lady and A Separation

Personal notes

Kurt Loder | 12.29.2011 6:00 PM

Policy

Terror TV

Homeland shows the messier side of the security bureaucracy.

Peter Suderman | 12.29.2011 8:30 AM

Policy

Talent on the Move

A review of Borderless Economics, a new book about the joys of labor mobility

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.28.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Adventures of Tintin, and War Horse

Foreign affairs

Kurt Loder | 12.20.2011 6:00 PM

Economics

The Invisible Economy

Tate Watkins | 12.18.2011 3:27 PM

Culture

Terrible Nova

Seth McKelvey | 12.18.2011 3:18 PM

Culture

Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Trivial pursuits

Kurt Loder | 12.15.2011 6:00 PM