Staff Reviews

Culture

Briefly Noted: Virtually Political

Peter Suderman | 2.4.2011 12:01 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Moose and Squirrel Never Die

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

Sanctum

The James Cameron effect

Kurt Loder | 2.3.2011 6:15 PM

Culture

The Green Hornet

Seth Rogen stars as Seth Rogen in another misbegotten comic-book flick.

Kurt Loder | 1.13.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage, cursed again.

Kurt Loder | 1.7.2011 10:30 AM

Culture

The Year in Books

Reason staffers pick the best books of 2010

Reason Staff | 12.30.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Blue Valentine

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams undone by the mysteries of love.

Kurt Loder | 12.29.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted Books, Movies, Television, and More

Privacy chic, outlaw bikers, William Gibson's Zero History, an unwitting libertarian documentary, and TV Carnage

Reason Staff | 12.28.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Privacy Chic

Radley Balko | 12.28.2010 11:00 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Anarchy in the USA

Damon Root | 12.28.2010 11:00 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Commercial Appeal

Peter Suderman | 12.28.2010 10:59 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Civic Art Theft

Michael Moynihan | 12.28.2010 10:34 AM

Culture

Freedom to Fail

Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.

Peter Suderman | 12.27.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

True Grit

The Coen brothers score, Jeff Bridges shines, and a star is born.

Kurt Loder | 12.22.2010 10:30 AM

Culture

TRON: Legacy

Jeff Bridges goes back to the Grid

Kurt Loder | 12.16.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

The Tourist

Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie on a road to nowhere

Kurt Loder | 12.10.2010 1:30 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Boardwalk Empire

Radley Balko | 12.3.2010 11:30 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: A Chorus of Praise for Silent Cal

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.3.2010 11:29 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Gratuitous Government

Jacob Sullum | 12.3.2010 11:29 AM

Culture

Black Swan

Natalie Portman shines yet again in Darren Aronofsky's dance-world shocker.

Kurt Loder | 12.2.2010 6:00 PM

Culture

The King's Speech

Colin Firth finds a new voice as King George VI

Kurt Loder | 11.26.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

The Singing Divas of Burlesque

Christina Aguilera and Cher anchor this old-school Hollywood musical

Kurt Loder | 11.24.2010 3:00 PM

Culture

Lost in the Dark

Magic mismanaged in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Kurt Loder | 11.18.2010 6:00 PM

Politics

Heeding the Sage of Baltimore

A new edition of H.L. Mencken's Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best.

Damon Root | 11.18.2010 10:30 AM

Policy

Some Really Inconvenient Truths

Bjørn Lomborg fights the forces of climate hysteria in the new documentary Cool It.

Kurt Loder | 11.11.2010 6:00 PM

Politics

Hooked

Anatomy of a takedown in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.

Kurt Loder | 11.4.2010 6:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Corpses, Crimes, and Comic Books

Old Testament justice in the horror comics of the '50s

Greg Beato | 10.29.2010 7:00 AM

Culture

Killer Queen

Lisbeth Salander wraps things up in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Kurt Loder | 10.28.2010 4:30 PM

Economics

The Original Mad Man

Advertising genius Albert Lasker transformed America.

Greg Beato | 10.22.2010 10:30 AM

Culture

Bring the Pain

Wrong done right in Jackass 3D

Kurt Loder | 10.14.2010 6:00 PM

Culture

Antisocial

The Social Network illuminates the dawn of our online-all-the-time world.

Kurt Loder | 9.30.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

The Men Who Sold the Moon

Advertising the early space race

Brian Doherty | 9.15.2010 6:00 PM

Politics

Heeding the Sage of Baltimore

A new edition of H.L. Mencken's Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best

Damon Root | 9.10.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

When They Were Out to Get Us

The paranoid days of the 1970s

Michael Moynihan | 8.24.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted Movies, Books, Television, and More

Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian, art from the Japanese internment camps, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, M.I.A.'s political pop, and more.

Jacob Sullum, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Radley Balko, and Nick Gillespie | 8.3.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Cuddly Angel of Death

Jacob Sullum | 8.3.2010 9:52 AM

Culture

The Art of War

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.3.2010 9:51 AM

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Revolting Food Revolution

Nick Gillespie | 8.3.2010 9:50 AM

Culture

The Redhead Roundup

Radley Balko | 8.3.2010 9:45 AM

Politics

Life on the Edge

Denizens of the periphery find ways to escape the predatory state.

Tom Palmer | 5.25.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Libertarianism From A to Z With Jeffrey Miron

Reason Staff | 5.3.2010 10:30 AM

Politics

Coming Up Short

What Michael Lewis' The Big Short gets right-and wrong-about the financial meltdown

Anthony Randazzo | 4.26.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

Psychedelic Men

Did LSD kill the '50s?

Nick Gillespie | 4.21.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

On Being a 21st Century Peasant

Environmentalist Bill McKibben's new book on the coming global collapse.

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

Philip Pullman: "No One Has the Right to Spend Their Life Without Being Offended."

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.31.2010 12:16 PM

Politics

Little Grrrls Lost

Angry, anti-capitalist punk girl bands power the U.S. economy.

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.29.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

From Genesis to Consternation

Robert Crumb's Bible stories

Brian Doherty | 3.26.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Bailing Out Big Brother

Media criticism goes from rebelling against media oligarchs to handing them a lifeline.

Matt Welch | 3.22.2010 3:00 PM