The Sindex: Price of Booze Away From Home Up 6.6 Percent Since 2022
From the October 2023 issue of Reason Magazine. (Reason Magazine) At Reason, we're keeping an eye on the price of vice. The Sindex tracks changes in prices economywide and compares them with a basket...
View ArticleBrickbats: October 2023
Police in the United Kingdom failed to solve any burglaries in almost half of the neighborhoods in England and Wales in the past three years. Last October, all of the chief constables in England and...
View ArticleReview: Silo Shows the Perils of Authoritarian Hierarchies
Ten thousand people living in a primitive 144-floor underground silo believe they are the last people on Earth. For over 100 years, they have been told by the powers that be that outside all is...
View ArticleReview: Shiny Happy People Charts the Downfall of the Duggar Family
The Amazon Prime Video documentary miniseries Shiny Happy People examines the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), a Christian fundamentalist group that became famous in the popular TLC show 19...
View ArticleTaylor Swift, Junk Fees, and the 'Happy Meal Fallacy'
When America's largest ticket retailer announced plans to adjust its pricing structure, President Joe Biden was quick to claim credit. But concertgoers really should thank Taylor Swift and her fans....
View ArticleAmerica's Immigrant Brain Drain
The United States boasts more international students, immigrant inventors, and foreign-born Nobel laureates than any other country. But thanks to our dysfunctional immigration system, the U.S. is...
View ArticlePower and Progress Is a Wrongheaded Critique of Tech Progress
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View ArticleTrue Crime Distorts the Truth about Crime
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View ArticleReview: White House Plumbers Delivers an Amusing Take on Watergate
HBO's White House Plumbers is a fictionalized account of the events before, during, and after the notorious break-in and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the...
View ArticleMap: In L.A., Local Control Is Local Confusion
There are dozens of governmental entities with the authority to regulate how residents of the Los Angeles metro area can use their land: what owners can build, what they can't build, parking minimums,...
View ArticleKat Timpf: Everything Is Funny and Nothing Is Sacred
"There's this idea among too many people that there's these sacred subjects that you can't joke about," says Fox News contributor Kat Timpf. "And I think that those are actually the most important...
View ArticleFree Market Book Misstates the History of Free Market Thought
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll, Basic Books, 336 pages, $32 Free Market tries to trace the history of free market thought from Cicero to Milton Friedman, with discussions of St....
View ArticleReview: In The Bear, a Restaurateur Battles Government Bureaucracy
In season two of Hulu's The Bear, the eponymous restaurant staff take on the manual labor of converting their divey-yet-delicious Italian beef sandwich shop into a Michelin restaurant. As if that task...
View ArticleReview: Alphabet Boys Explores Federal Cops' Manufactured Crimes
"Are federal agents and their informants catching bad guys, or creating them?" That's the question at the heart of Alphabet Boys, a new Western Sound/iHeartMedia podcast hosted by investigative...
View ArticleRick Perry on Psychedelics: 'These Are Medicines That Were Taken Away for...
Republican Rick Perry served as governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and then did a stint as secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019. He describes himself as a small-government conservative. He's not in...
View ArticleQuebec's Language Restrictions Limit Freedom of Expression
The Montreal Biodôme's scarlet macaw named Bouton "will be deported to the Toronto Zoo next Friday after she only spoke English during a government inspection," The Beaverton reported in July 2013....
View ArticlePhoto: Texas' Border Buoys
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has installed a 1,000-foot string of 4-foot-high bright orange buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, which is a common—and frequently deadly—crossing...
View ArticleArchives: October 2023
10 years ago October 2013 "When government is lying to you about the constitutional rights it routinely violates, it's time to change your habits of mind. No more blank checks. No more 'trust, but...
View ArticleWhat's in Your Bug-Out Bag?
Enjoy the fruits of capitalism with The Goods, a regular series highlighting products that can make life a little bit better. Whether you call the result a bug-out bag, a go bag, a 72-hour bag, or...
View ArticleMandating Civics in Schools Won't Fix American Democracy
On the campaign trail in May, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively proposed raising the voting age to 25 for Americans who have not had any kind of civic experience, such as...
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