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Comic Debrief
Comic-book critic Douglas Wolk talks about what’s good in comics, their recent political turn, and why the medium is more interesting than ever
Culture11 — September 23, 2008
Democrats Capitulate on FISA
Democrats are trying to rationalize capitulating on surveillance and telecom immunity in the new FISA bill by calling it a compromise. It isn’t.
The American Prospect Online — June 25, 2008
FISA Funny Business
The American Spectator — March 25, 2008
Wiretapping’s True Danger
History says we should worry less about privacy and more about political spying
Los Angeles Times — March 16, 2008
The Right Stuff
John McCain’s tepid reception from conservative Republicans shows he is struggling to win their support
The Guardian — February 8, 2008
Who Wrote Ron Paul’s Newsletters?
Libertarian movement veterans, and a Paul campaign staffer, say it was “paleolibertarian” strategist Lew Rockwell
Reason Online — January 16, 2008
Time for Democrats to Lead on FISA
The Republicans are scaremongering, but the Democrats are cowering
Reason Online — December 20, 2007
Restoring Habeas
Why old “enemy combatant” rules can’t apply to a global battlefield
Reason Online — December 12, 2007
The Revolt of the Comic Books
America’s superheroes take on preemptive war, torture, warrantless spying, and George W. himself.
The American Prospect — November 2007
Thou Shalt Not Knock Off
Will Congress move to increase copyright protection for fashion designs? Should it?
The American — September 14, 2007
Fear, Frenzy, and FISA
How the Bush administration has kept Congress locked in a September 12 state of panic
Reason Online — August 7, 2007
First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin (and follow-up posts)
Cato Unbound — July 2007
The Pinpoint Search (and sidebar)
How super-accurate surveillance technology threatens our privacy
Reason — January 2007
My Summer Reading Journal
George W. Bush reads Camus
The American Prospect Online — August 18, 2006
Marital Mythology
Why the new crisis in marriage isn’t
Reason — June 2006
Inside the Puzzle Palace
A Reason interview with NSA whistleblower Russell Tice
Reason Online — January 13, 2006
The Prehistory of Cyberspace
How BBSes paved the way for the Internet
Reason —December 2005
Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair? [PDF]
Cato Journal — Fall 2005
Out to the Black
The existentialist libertarianism of Joss Whedon’s space western
Reason Online — September 30, 2005
The Evidence Is In: Liberalizing Trade Works
Hispanic Magazine — September 2005
Doctor Sex, Ph.D.
Are we all Kinseyans now?
Reason — February 2005
The True Spirit of Xmas
How 4/5 of the country became an oppressed minority
Reason Online — December 20, 2004
Vox the Rote
The return of protest music
Reason Online — August 9, 2004
Discussing Disgust
On the folly of gross-out public policy. An interview with Martha Nussbaum.
Reason Online — July 15, 2004
Cheating Heart
Does capitalism teach people to break the rules?
Reason — July 2004
Homage to Castilla
“Appeasement” in Spain
Reason Online — March 17, 2004
Misreading Millennials
The politics of a rising generation
Reason — December 2003
Eichmann in Hogwarts
Harry Potter and the banality of evil
Reason — November 2003
Denial of Service
The battle over Americorps
Reason — October 2003
The Mystery of Mary Rosh
How a new form of journalism investigated a gun research riddle
Reason — May 2003