"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
The Brown University economist says prejudice and systemic racism are not the primary problems facing African Americans.
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
How to reduce police killings and enact lasting change.
Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow says violent protests helped Richard Nixon win the presidency in 1968.
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
The longtime activist is the front-runner for the L.P. presidential nomination and has a special message to young people.
New documentary features Sting, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Bourdain, Carrie Fisher, and others discussing the good, bad, and ugly of LSD.
Stanford researcher Tina White and the new nonprofit Covid Watch are committed to protecting both individual rights and public health.
A surgeon and policy analyst tallies up the steep costs of delaying and denying elective surgery and other care during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
The Michigan congressman's run for the White House will change the Libertarian Party and national politics.
"The more we lock down the economy, the more we harm those individuals who are most vulnerable, who don't have the cash cushions or the white-collar jobs that allow them to keep going."
Dr. Jeremy S. Faust talks about battling COVID-19 in the emergency room and how to safely reopen American society.
In a new collection, the economic historian documents how classical liberals pushed for abolition and equality in 19th-century America.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is making MDMA and other drugs medically legitimate and socially acceptable.
The Duke economist and political scientist discusses the response to COVID-19, the coming recession, and the end of higher ed as we know it.
The "rational optimist" talks about coronavirus, Brexit, libertarianism, and his next book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.
The Kentucky Republican took on Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi to fight against the $2 trillion coronavirus spending package. He's just getting started.
Here is the best way to make sense of constantly changing predictions, says Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
Economist Alex Tabarrok on the problems with the U.S. government's response to COVID-19.
The worst-case scenarios projecting millions of deaths don't take into account adaptive behaviors.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
Reason's science correspondent explains who is getting infected, how to protect yourself, and why nobody should be freaking out. Yet.
The New York Times technology reporter is revealing how social media is encouraging individual expression.
Sinking in the Swamp authors Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng are documenting all the president's grifters for The Daily Beast.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
"Say what you will about ISIS but at least they're not Islamophobic." Journalist Andrew Doyle has created the ultimate parody account.
Education activist Andrew Campanella on the moral perversity of school-choice critics.
"I don't think you should do Twitter if you think you're better than Twitter."
Amity Shlaes's new history of the late 1960s explains the failure of the last time the federal government tried to fix all that was wrong with America.
The Cato Institute's Christopher A. Preble lays out a uniquely libertarian approach to Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere.
E-cigarettes are under attack, but they are a safer way to consume nicotine than conventional smoking, says Jacob Sullum.
Human beings are designed to remember trauma more than joy, bad times more than good ones. But John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister have good news on the despair front.
The new memoir Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race is a powerful personal statement and national call to arms.
The Brexit architect explains what the media got wrong about Brexit, the rise of "Bannonism and Bernie-ism," and what went wrong in Venezuela.
The conservative critic of Donald Trump and author of Liberal Fascism and Suicide of the West is launching The Dispatch, a site for principled conservatism.
The libertarian analyst predicts Dems will bring as many as five articles of impeachment against President Trump.
The podcast superstar talks about how media gatekeepers have been mostly vanquished and his deep interest in liberty and freedom.
"They wanted to deplatform me," says the legendary filmmaker, for the mortal sin of engaging former Trump adviser and Breitbart.com head.
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