Reason magazine - March 2024

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In this issue:

THE BANKRUPTCY OF BIDENOMICS - Biden's economic policies gave us three years of excessive, wasteful, and poorly targeted federal spending.

INTERVIEW: BILL MAHER - The HBO host on free speech, weed, and 30 years in political comedy.

INDONESIA’S FREE MARKET ‘SUPERBLOCKS’ - You don’t need central planners to get pedestrian-friendly urban design.

The Life and Death of a Company Town

MORE THAN A century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same work. They also enjoyed many appealing amenities, from high-quality homes to a three-story YMCA.

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COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court

SOME 270 MILLION Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions.

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Ski Jump Snow Job

IN 1994, COPPER Peak, a ski-flying hill located in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hosted its last ski-jumping competition-or so it thought.

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Big Brother in the Driver's Seat

IF YOU'VE SEARCHED online about buying a car, you know you're in for a wave of aggressive come-ons and sales pitches. But I found a way to make car sellers clam up: All you have to do is start asking questions about the increasingly intrusive \"nanny\" nature of automobiles.

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Sheriff 'Floored and Shocked' by Deputies' Brutality

\"I'M JUST FLOORED and shocked,\" Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey said last August after five of his former deputies admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two men during an unlawful home invasion the previous January.

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Claudine Gay's Defenders Shoot the Messenger

CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNED as president of Harvard University in January, following numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. But in some corners of the media, the fact that she committed plagiarism mattered much less than the fact that it was conservative writers who caught her.

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Feds Make a Pharma Patent Grab

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION may take redistribution to new extremes if a policy revision floated in December comes to fruition. The White House wants to give federal agencies the right to seize some pharmaceutical patents when they deem drug prices too high.

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Predictably, No Progress on Global Emissions

EIGHT YEARS AFTER the Paris climate agreement, where do we stand on global emissions? The title of a new United Nations Environment Programme report sums the situation up: Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again).

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The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics

BIDEN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GAVE US THREE YEARS OF EXCESSIVE, WASTEFUL, AND POORLY TARGETED FEDERAL SPENDING.

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THE REAL STUDENT LOAN CRISIS

MISLED BY A BAD LAW, GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DROWNING IN DEBT.

10+ mins

THE LAST LIBERAL

Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech

10+ mins

Indonesia's Free Market 'Superblocks'

YOU DON’T NEED CENTRAL PLANNERS TO GET PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN.

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REEXAMINING THE REALIGNMENT

CAN FREE MARKETS WIN VOTES IN THE NEW GOP?

10+ mins

All the Sad Young Things

Maybe the problem for teens isn’t screens, but what they are replacing.

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The Revolting Mr. Taxpayer

THOUGH ANIMUS TOWARD tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax revolts, much like the history of mutual aid or of nonunion workers during strikes, cannot easily be subsumed under the most popular analytical categories, such as economic class. So Linda Upham-Bornstein's \"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender\": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression is a welcome sign.

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Creating Our Own Simulations

FOR RENÉ DESCARTES, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the founding fathers of behaviorism, minds were identical with behaviors-talking, habits, dispositions to act in one way or another. More recently, minds have been imagined as a kind of computer: the software running on the hardware of the brain.

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