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SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
Reason magazine

SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP

A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE

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October 2021
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Reason magazine

How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.

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August - September 2021
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
Reason magazine

America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.

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August - September 2021
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
Reason magazine

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

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August - September 2021
Post Apocalypse
Reason magazine

Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.

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August - September 2021
Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?
Reason magazine

Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?

“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”

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August - September 2021
Autonomous Mexico
Reason magazine

Autonomous Mexico

What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state

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August - September 2021
The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech
Reason magazine

The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech

Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?

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July 2021
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
Reason magazine

The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary

Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.

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July 2021
What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like
Reason magazine

What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like

Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.

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July 2021
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
Reason magazine

Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke

A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.

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July 2021
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
Reason magazine

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits

The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.

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July 2021
Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech
Reason magazine

Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech

IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”

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July 2021
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
Reason magazine

Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?

WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.

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August - September 2021
 There's Nothing Modern About MMT
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There's Nothing Modern About MMT

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.

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June 2021
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Reason magazine

When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse

Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.

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June 2021
Reason magazine

The Era of Small Government Is Over

Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?

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June 2021
An $86 Billion Moral Hazard
Reason magazine

An $86 Billion Moral Hazard

The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.

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June 2021
The Pandemic Will Make Kids Or Break Them
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The Pandemic Will Make Kids Or Break Them

The COVID-19 era has worked as a stress test for parents and kids alike, breaking some while bringing out reserves of strength and resilience in others.

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June 2021
Cult Country
Reason magazine

Cult Country

Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?

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June 2021
‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers
Reason magazine

‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers

“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.

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June 2021
The Last Pandemic
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The Last Pandemic

Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like Covid-19.

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May 2021
'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed Of The Counterculture'
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'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed Of The Counterculture'

A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand

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June 2021
The Conversion of Thomas Sowell
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The Conversion of Thomas Sowell

IT WASN’T UNTIL HIS THIRTIES THAT THE ECONOMIST STARTED TO TURN FROM MARXISM.

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July 2021
The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away
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The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away

While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.

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May 2021
Wartime Rationing Changed How America Ate for a Century. The Pandemic Will Do the Same.
Reason magazine

Wartime Rationing Changed How America Ate for a Century. The Pandemic Will Do the Same.

The government tried to stabilize the Nation’s food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.

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May 2021
Coming Out Of The Chemical Closet
Reason magazine

Coming Out Of The Chemical Closet

Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong.

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May 2021
Beyond Covid
Reason magazine

Beyond Covid

More uses for new mRNA technology

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May 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Clings To His Pedestal
Reason magazine

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Clings To His Pedestal

A year ago, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a pandemic hero.

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May 2021
The Dream Of The '90s Died In Portland
Reason magazine

The Dream Of The '90s Died In Portland

Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.

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May 2021