Staff Reviews

Culture

Appendix of Darkness

Jacob Sullum | 2.11.2013 9:00 AM

Policy

Competing Currencies

A new book draws the wrong lessons from privately issued money.

Lawrence White | 2.9.2013 1:00 PM

Culture

Side Effects and Identity Thief

Prime Soderbergh and an under-served Melissa McCarthy.

Kurt Loder | 2.8.2013 9:00 AM

Policy

Preserving Justice By Saying No

How principled men and women in the military justice system resisted encroachments on civil liberties.

Harvey Silverglate | 2.2.2013 3:00 PM

Culture

Warm Bodies

Dead boy meets girl in a clever new zombie love story.

Kurt Loder | 2.1.2013 9:00 AM

Politics

How Free-Market Thought Succeeded By Getting More Radical

A brilliant history shows libertarianism, even when uncredited, changing the world.

Brian Doherty | 1.26.2013 1:00 PM

Culture

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Jeremy Renner on crone patrol.

Kurt Loder | 1.25.2013 9:00 AM

Politics

Rational Man

The skeptic who scandalized Victorian America.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.24.2013 4:30 PM

Politics

Europe: America's Crystal Ball?

A new book warns that the United States is adopting a European economic culture.

Matthew Feeney | 1.22.2013 10:30 AM

Policy

The Relief Disaster

The failure of foreign aid in post-quake Haiti.

Tate Watkins | 1.19.2013 1:00 PM

Culture

Broken City and Mama

Russell Crowe vs. Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Chastain vs. unspeakable evil.

Kurt Loder | 1.18.2013 9:00 AM

Policy

Sonia Sotomayor's Disappointing Memoir

The Supreme Court justice sheds little light on her legal approach.

Damon Root | 1.15.2013 1:30 PM

Staff Reviews

Video: Q&A: Eyal Press on Beautiful Souls, Nonconformists Who Stand Up to Power

Anthony Fisher | 1.15.2013 9:45 AM

Policy

Manufacturing Terrorists

Inside the FBI's terror sting operations.

Michael German | 1.15.2013 7:00 AM

Culture

Gangster Squad

Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn in a mob-movie misfire.

Kurt Loder | 1.11.2013 9:00 AM

Staff Reviews

Video: Joe Kennedy: Not a Bootlegger or a Nazi, But a Hardcore Non-Interventionist

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 1.9.2013 11:23 AM

Policy

Making Sense of Intellectual Property Law

A new book tries to bring some balance back to copyright policy.

Tom Palmer | 1.8.2013 1:30 PM

Culture

Impeach Lincoln!

Matthew Feeney | 1.7.2013 10:30 AM

Culture

The Mongols Are Coming!

A new trilogy courtesy of Neal Stephenson's cult following.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.7.2013 10:30 AM

Culture

Survivor: Nuclear Edition

Scott Shackford | 1.7.2013 10:30 AM

War on Drugs

Drug War, Class War

Matt Welch | 1.7.2013 10:30 AM

Culture

Grade-School Humor

Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2013 10:28 AM

Civil Liberties

When the Iron Curtain Fell

How totalitarianism came to Eastern Europe, and why it didn't stay.

Frank Dikötter | 1.5.2013 1:00 PM

Culture

Amour and West of Memphis

Love at the end of the road, hope for the end of a huge injustice.

Kurt Loder | 1.4.2013 9:00 AM

Culture

'A Highly Personal Music'

Jazz, commerce, and individualism.

George Smith | 12.30.2012 1:00 PM

Culture

Les Misérables

Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their Oscars.

Kurt Loder | 12.28.2012 9:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx redress the horrors of American slavery.

Kurt Loder | 12.24.2012 12:00 PM

Culture

Atlas Shrugged Part II: Election Edition

Rand's timeless novel is recast as a Tea Party fable.

Brian Doherty | 12.23.2012 1:00 PM

Culture

Jack Reacher

Tom Cruise misfires in the role of an ultra-hard-boiled investigator.

Kurt Loder | 12.21.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Zero Dark Thirty

Jessica Chastain on the trail of Osama bin Laden.

Kurt Loder | 12.19.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Dictionary Death Match

How Webster's set off a battle that still reverberates today.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.15.2012 1:00 PM

Culture

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Peter Jackson on a surprisingly flawed new quest.

Kurt Loder | 12.14.2012 9:00 AM

Policy

The Real Test of Education Policy

What happens when a profoundly unusual individual student runs up against a school system designed for "most" kids?

Mike Godwin | 12.11.2012 7:00 AM

Culture

An Anti-Authoritarian New Year

The wall calendar vs. the state.

Richard Kostelanetz | 12.8.2012 1:00 PM

Culture

End of Watch and Deadfall

Jake Gyllenhaal and Eric Bana in tales of cops and robbers.

Kurt Loder | 12.7.2012 9:00 AM

Censorship

Video: Censorship and "Unlearning Liberty" at College: Q & A with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 12.6.2012 11:45 AM

Culture

Milgram: The Movie

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.5.2012 10:00 AM

Culture

The Politics of Dating

Lucy Steigerwald | 12.5.2012 10:00 AM

Policy

Weeds Goes Legit

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2012 10:00 AM

Culture

The Demise of Social Science

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2012 10:00 AM

Politics

Practical Anarchy

James C. Scott's latest book makes a low-key case for a little bit of anarchism.

Lucy Steigerwald | 12.4.2012 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Finding Sex in the Bill of Rights

How the American Civil Liberties Union changed the way Americans think about sexual freedom.

Debbie Nathan | 12.1.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Killing Them Softly

Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini in a mob tale with a heavy message.

Kurt Loder | 11.30.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Stalin's Student in Beijing

A new biography highlights Mao's relationship with Moscow.

Frank Dikötter | 11.27.2012 10:30 AM

Culture

Anarchism's Royal Couple

The lives and ideas of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.

Sharon Presley | 11.25.2012 1:00 PM

Culture

Hitchcock

Anthony Hopkins takes a stab at the man who made Psycho.

Kurt Loder | 11.25.2012 8:15 AM

Civil Liberties

The Elizabethan CIA

The surveillance state in the 16th century

Paul Cantor | 11.24.2012 8:00 AM

Culture

Life of Pi

Director Ang Lee gets viewers lost at sea.

Kurt Loder | 11.21.2012 9:00 AM