Reason magazine - January 2025

In this issue

THE GREAT AMERICAN CITY UPON A HILL IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
America’s utopian dreams lead to urban experimentation.

INTERVIEW: AMANDA KNOX
Amanda Knox on true crime, the criminal justice system, and “the single victim fallacy”

EVERYBODY HATES PRICES
But they help us decide between bourbon and Baconators.

What Is the 'Working Class'?

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS alike want to be seen as champions of the working class-understandably so, since that cohort of Americans is understood as essential to winning several presidential swing states.

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A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research

YOU HAVE PROBABLY never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), much less worried about its possible abuse. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban this synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical used in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated a previous DEA attempt to ban DOI in 2022, is determined to stop the agency's interference with science again.

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Modern Crafters Rediscover an Old Sweater

YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE been picking up fiber arts such as knitting in recent years, spurred by social media trends and pandemic-era boredom. Knitting forums now feature young crafters not just rediscovering traditional patterns but reinventing them for modern times.

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Citizen Journalism Under Threat

CIVIL LIBERTIES

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There's More to the 'Motherhood Penalty'

IS MOTHERHOOD BAD for women's careers? Conventional wisdom says \"yes,\" but a new study suggests \"maybe not.\"

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Censorship on Campus

LAST YEAR, STUDENT-LED protests over the Israel-Hamas war broke out at dozens of college campuses. With the new school year well underway, student demonstrations have begun again in earnest.

2 mins

Q & A: Jane Coaston

JANE COASTON IS a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times who describes herself as having “libertarian tendencies.”

3 mins

Pearl Clutchers in Hot Spring County

IS THE FILM Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double entendres about \"spotted dick\" pudding? Or a travel documentary about Paris featuring burlesque dancers and a museum with nude paintings? These were just some of the federal obscenity complaints that made Hot Spring County, Arkansas, the most prudish place in America.

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Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries

IN SEPTEMBER, A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive-one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software-in a copyright case with significant implications for publishers, libraries, and readers.

3 mins

Abolish the Army

IMMEDIATE ATTACKS ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY WOULD COME NOT FROM LAND BUT FROM THE SEA.

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Abolish Borders

LINES DRAWN BY GOVERNMENTS DON’T HAVE MORAL MAGIC.

3 mins

Abolish the Department of Transportation

IT DOESN'T EVEN BUILD THE ROADS. IT JUST INCREASES COSTS.

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Abolish the FCC

LET THE INVISIBLE HAND REGULATE THE INVISIBLE RESOURCE.

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Abolish the Fed

IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE AMERICA WITHOUT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, BUT A CENTRAL BANK IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO A FUNCTIONING ECONOMY.

3 mins

Abolish ICC

THE AGENCY DISRUPTS COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES, FOR NO GOOD.

3 mins

Abolish the National Park Service

PRIVATIZATION CAN MAKE AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS MORE ACCESSIBLE AND BETTER MAINTAINED.

4 mins

Abolish the NSA and CIA

ENDING THESE UNACCOUNTABLE AGENCIES WOULD SAFEGUARD CIVIL LIBERTIES AND IMPROVE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING.

3 mins

The Backpage Trial Finally Ends-With a Suicide and a Sentencing

UNFAIR ALLEGATIONS OF SEX TRAFFICKING CHILLED FREE SPEECH ONLINE AND RUINED LIVES.

10+ mins

Blaming Bill Buckley

IT'S THE CLEANEST, neatnest [sic] operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious.\" When Rexford Tugwell, an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, wrote these words in 1934, he was not referring to the New Deal programs in his purview.

6 mins

We Still Live in the Physical World

The digital world has not effaced our humanity, no matter what social critics like Christine Rosen say.

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