Staff Reviews

Politics

Notes from the Underground

How the underground press of the 1960s revolutionized the American media

Greg Beato | 3.24.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

The Book of Mormon

South Park does Broadway

Kurt Loder | 3.23.2011 6:00 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted: HealCam

Radley Balko | 3.19.2011 9:10 AM

Culture

Limitless and Win Win

Cutting corners for fun and profit

Kurt Loder | 3.17.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Red Riding Hood

Wolf bane

Kurt Loder | 3.10.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Control Yourself

Peter Suderman | 3.4.2011 4:57 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Give Me My Ears Back

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.4.2011 4:56 PM

Civil Liberties

Briefly Noted: DIY Exoneration

Radley Balko | 3.4.2011 4:54 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted: Global Warming Thaw

Ronald Bailey | 3.4.2011 4:53 PM

Politics

In the Long Run, Are We All Undead?

When the zombies come, the neocons will be ready.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.18.2011 10:30 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Batman Goes Corporate

Peter Suderman | 2.17.2011 5:38 PM

Culture

Cedar Rapids

John C. Reilly shines in the year's first really funny movie.

Kurt Loder | 2.11.2011 7:00 AM

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