Television

Culture

Jon Stewart and Me

We agreed more than we disagreed but Jon is a comic genius and may be the smartest personality on television.

Andrew Napolitano | 2.19.2015 12:05 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Ice-T's Guide to Sexual Subcultures

When the down-low panic came to Law and Order: SVU

Jesse Walker | 2.13.2015 12:46 PM

Culture

Social Justice on the Small Screen: Primetime Tackles GamerGate, Men's Rights, & Campus Rape

Ripped from the headlines Twitter timelines

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.12.2015 4:45 PM

Culture

Brian Williams's Reputation Floating Face-First After Serial Humble-Bragging

Matt Welch | 2.9.2015 12:23 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: World Leader Predicts TV Will Solve the Planet's Problems

A blast of techo-utopianism from 1929

Jesse Walker | 2.6.2015 12:59 PM

Politics

Don't Expect Foreign Policy Restraint from Scott Walker

And for now, don't expect foreign policy specifics either.

Jesse Walker | 2.2.2015 10:07 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Dick Nixon Tickles the Ivories

A future president plays Jack Paar's piano.

Jesse Walker | 1.30.2015 1:15 PM

Addiction

I Learned It by Watching You: How Television Distorts Drug Addiction

Fictional dramas aid leading medical historians in misrepresenting what happens when people get hooked on cocaine and other substances.

Stanton Peele | 1.18.2015 10:30 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Welcome to Oscar Season

This is what Academy voters actually believe.

Jesse Walker | 1.16.2015 11:08 AM

Civil Liberties

Sky News Really Doesn't Want to Show the New Charlie Hebdo Cover

Self-censorship in action

Jesse Walker | 1.15.2015 12:23 AM

Culture

Swimming With Sharks

Robby Soave | 1.1.2015 12:00 PM

Culture

What's Up, Doc?

Peter Suderman | 1.1.2015 12:00 PM

Culture

Manhattan's Implosions

Matt Welch | 1.1.2015 12:00 PM

Culture

A Fond Farewell to the Legend of Korra, an Anti-Authoritarian Delight

Robby Soave | 12.22.2014 5:25 PM

Culture

To Catch a Predator for Sex Workers Coming to A&E

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.12.2014 3:55 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Jazz TV

The landmark 1957 program The Sound of Jazz

Jesse Walker | 12.5.2014 11:02 AM

Culture

TV's Greatest Sleazebag

Zenon Evans | 12.1.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

Thrown for a Loss

Scott Shackford | 12.1.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Citing Its Supreme Court Defeat, Aereo Files for Bankruptcy

Damon Root | 11.21.2014 1:53 PM

Politics

Anthony L. Fisher Talks Grubergate, Sexism in a Scientist's Shirt, and Adult Underoos on Red Eye Tonight at 3 a.m. ET/Midnight PT

Anthony Fisher | 11.14.2014 6:00 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Too Hot for Sesame Street

Happy 45th birthday, Big Bird.

Jesse Walker | 11.14.2014 10:46 AM

Culture

Is Breaking Bad an Ad for Meth?

Jacob Sullum | 11.12.2014 2:05 PM

Politics

Friday A/V Club: Legalizing Liquor-By-the-Drink

A drive to preserve a Prohibitionist relic

Jesse Walker | 11.7.2014 10:58 AM

Politics

Must-See *Broadcast* TV?: "Fisting, Anal Sex, Penis Pictures"

Nick Gillespie | 11.7.2014 9:54 AM

Election 2014

Your Guide to Ignoring Midterm Election Television Coverage

Scott Shackford | 11.4.2014 11:40 AM

Politics

What a 40-Year-Old-Cover of People Magazine Says About Progress

Nick Gillespie | 11.1.2014 10:32 AM

Television

Cop or Criminal?

Ed Krayewski | 11.1.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

This One Picture of Telly Savalas Refutes All Fears That Progress Has Ended

Nick Gillespie | 10.30.2014 1:13 PM

Culture

Jack Parsons: Didn't Make it To Outer Space, Will Make it to Cool TV Channel AMC

Brian Doherty | 10.28.2014 9:20 PM

Politics

Aereo, the Supreme Court, and the Future of TV

Meredith Bragg | 10.25.2014 3:00 PM

Policy

Friday A/V Club: Vintage Swine Flu PSAs

Memories of the Ford administration.

Jesse Walker | 10.24.2014 10:23 AM

Intellectual Property

Goodfellas Actor Suing Simpsons Because Mafia Character Looks Like Him

Ed Krayewski | 10.24.2014 10:11 AM

Culture

From the Archives: The Best of Reason on TV

TV is poisoning our children's minds! Said no Reason writer, ever.

Robby Soave | 10.19.2014 12:00 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Commie Werewolves

The '50s as filtered through SCTV

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2014 8:05 AM

Politics

HBO Finally Offering Online Streaming Without a Cable Package

Stephanie Slade | 10.15.2014 2:46 PM

Politics

MSNBC Has Lousy Ratings—and They're Getting Worse

Reason Staff | 10.13.2014 10:50 AM

Economics

Reason TV: Mike Rowe on the Value of a Strong Work Ethic

Paul Feine | 10.11.2014 10:30 AM

Culture

How Everyone Can Win in the New Culture Wars—and How They Can Lose

Peter Suderman | 10.10.2014 12:24 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Requiem for Jan Hooks

Two sketches from the late 1980s

Jesse Walker | 10.10.2014 8:10 AM

Politics

5 TV Shows All Libertarians Should Hate!: Help Crowdsource a Reason TV Video

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.7.2014 8:30 PM

Politics

Lena Dunham, Lil' Jon, and Alec Baldwin's Daughter Rock the Vote!

Anthony Fisher | 10.7.2014 5:32 PM

Civil Liberties

Federal Court Allows Civil Rights Case Against Baltimore Cop Who Inspired a Character on The Wire

Damon Root | 10.3.2014 10:51 AM

Culture

Netflix Aims to Reinvent the Movie Business With Some Help From Adam Sandler

Peter Suderman | 10.2.2014 1:14 PM

Politics

South Park + 4 More: The 5 Best Libertarian TV Shows Ever

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.1.2014 8:58 PM

Policy

How Bureaucrats Tried and Failed to Make TV Suck

The history of all things televisionish has been one of fraught relationships between rising innovators and grasping regulators.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Video Games

'Watching the Game' Has Found a Completely Different Meaning Online

A massive, worldwide audience has developed to watch people play video games, and it's worth billions.

Scott Shackford | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

The New Face of Television

How murder, treachery, and mayhem made TV a 'vast wasteland' no more

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM