Should Facebook and Twitter Censor Themselves? A Debate.
Should social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube only remove users who make true threats or incite violence? Or do they have an ethical obligation to hold their users to a higher...
View ArticleDevin Nunes' Lawsuit Against Twitter Is an Attack on Every American's Right...
According to Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, the abuse he's endured on Twitter is of a "breadth and scope" that "no human being should ever have to bear and suffer in their whole life." He's been...
View ArticleThe Yale Professor Attacked by Angry Students Over Halloween Costumes...
In 2015, an angry confrontation at Yale over how to dress up on Halloween caused a national sensation. Protesting students called for the university to fire Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist and...
View ArticleAre Humans Predisposed by Evolution To Get Along?: Podcast
In 2015, an angry confrontation at Yale over how to dress up on Halloween caused a national sensation. Protesting students called for the university to fire Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist and...
View ArticleJohn McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
When actor Jussie Smollet lied about being attacked by racist, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump supporters, Columbia University linguist John McWhorter actually interpreted it as a sign that "we have come...
View ArticleHappy Taxation-Is-Theft Day!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) is engaging in some mildly awkward conversations about being a millionaire while constantly seeking to soak the rich. Which on this Tax Day, is kind of hilarious, so it's...
View ArticleJudge Andrew Napolitano: President Trump Obstructed
Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News has long argued for libertarian positions on the nation's largest cable news network, consistently holding George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and now Donald Trump...
View ArticleToday's Anti-Immigration Script Was Written 100 Years Ago by America's Elite
When Donald Trump claimed in 2015 that Mexican immigrants will ravage our women, destroy our neighborhoods, and taint our ethnic and cultural purity, he entered into a long-standing, well-cultivated...
View ArticleGeorge Will's Uphill Battle Against Trump's GOP and the Democratic Socialist...
Three years ago this month, George Will, America's foremost conservative newspaper columnist, officially quit the Republican Party over its acquiescance to Donald Trump. "This is not my party," he...
View ArticleCampus Radicals Against Free Speech
Reason's Robby Soave has been writing about culture, free speech, due process, and moral outrage on campus since joining the magazine in 2014. His first book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age...
View ArticleIs It 'Morally Disturbing' When Charter Schools Skim Highly Motivated Families?
At the 2000 Republican National Convention, the country got one of its first glimpses of a new type of public charter school. The claim was that with enough rigor, devotion, and "no excuses"...
View ArticleThe Great Libertarian Gift Guide of 2021
What's that sound? Hark! I hear the buzz of holiday receptions, the undaunted jingle of that Salvation Army bell ringer, the groans every time "Last Christmas" plays, and the dulcet tones of carolers...
View ArticleDo 'More Guns Lead To More Deaths'?
Just days after the school shooting in Nashville that left three students and three adults dead, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D–N.Y.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) got into a fiery exchange captured on video...
View ArticleWhy Homelessness Is Worse in California Than in Texas
Homelessness has been rising in America's West Coast cities for more than a decade. Entire blocks of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland are occupied by tent encampments plagued by violence, drug...
View ArticleElon Musk Warns Tucker Carlson: The Feds Are in Your Twitter DMs
Who's that sliding into your Twitter DMs? Is it the federal government? Well, according to Elon Musk, who took over the social media platform last year, government bureaucrats were routinely taking a...
View ArticleVivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About the National Debt
If you want to get a politician to change the subject, ask them how they're going to deal with the federal debt, which is growing to be bigger than the U.S. gross domestic product and has us on a path...
View ArticleJoel Embiid Became an NBA Superstar by…Watching YouTube?
As a gangly kid who had just arrived in the U.S. from Cameroon, West Africa, 16-year-old Joel Embiid had a lot of the gifts he'd eventually put to use in the NBA: the height, the athleticism, the...
View ArticleWhy Is It So Hard for Victims of Police Abuse To Get Justice?
Onree Norris was nearly 80 years old when, on the evening of February 8, 2018, he heard an explosion go off inside his house in suburban Georgia. A team of more than two dozen police officers had set...
View ArticleBitcoin's Greatest Test
Fifteen years after Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a nine-page white paper on an obscure email list sketching out an idea for a new peer-to-peer digital currency, bitcoin has become a global phenomenon. And...
View ArticleCan Grandmas Be Bitcoin Cypherpunks? Q&A With Jameson Lopp
In October 2017, a SWAT team showed up at Jameson Lopp's house in North Carolina, allegedly because of a fake complaint called in by someone angered by a tweet. So Lopp posted a video of himself...
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