Reason Nominated for 17 Southern California Journalism Awards
Reason has received 17 nominations for the 67th Southern California Journalism Awards, the Los Angeles Press Club announced Tuesday, including nine nods for the magazine, five for video, and three for podcasting.
Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward is nominated for best magazine columnist for “The Bankruptcy of Nostalgianomics” from the March 2024 issue of Reason; “SWAT Goes to College” from the July 2024 issue of Reason; and “Double-Hater Dead-Enders” from the November 2024 issue of Reason:
In election season, there’s a certain dark freedom in policy nihilism. It allows candidates to campaign without accountability. If their policy proposals are flimsy and changeable, they reduce their own risk of being held to their promises. Knowing that the policy talk is meaningless allows voters to gloss over the difficult details of proposals, since the candidates are unlikely to pursue the policies they are discussing in a recognizable way once in office anyway. We’re left with elections where the stakes feel apocalyptic, even as the substance hollows out.
But policy nihilism is only tenable for as long as the campaign lasts. Someone will win, and that person must govern—at which point the double-haters will almost certainly be proven right.
Reporter Eric Boehm is nominated for best long-form magazine feature on business/government for “How Inflation Breaks Our Brains,” from the October 2024 issue of Reason, in which he surveys how history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—go insane:
Inflation, it turns out, is also a psychological phenomenon. It makes us angry. It makes us irrational. In any democratic system, that anger and irrationality can be quickly translated into poor policies—unless elected and unelected officials are prepared to withstand it, and to recognize that combating inflation often requires unpopular actions. Now is not the time to indulge the wisdom of the mob.
Reporter Billy Binion is nominated for best magazine commentary for “Trump Promises Police ‘Immunity From Prosecution,’” from the August/September 2024 issue of Reason, in which he argues that pledging to inoculate law enforcement from accountability is both legally illiterate and unjust:
But one thing is clear: Trump would like to see law enforcement held to a lesser standard than the public they serve. The former president has arguably never been a tried-and-true conservative, but he does need to court them. It is difficult to make a conservative case for ensuring that those who enforce the law are also above it.
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey is nominated for best science reporting in print and online for “Progress, Rediscovered,” from the May 2024 issue of Reason, in which he profiles a burgeoning movement promoting scientific, technological, and economic solutions to humanity’s problems:
Jason Crawford, founder of the Roots of Progress project, is one of the leaders of a new pro-progress movement that is coalescing in a collection of think tanks, websites, and other intellectual incubators. It celebrates humanity’s achievements so far. It judges progress not in technocratic terms but with an eye on outcomes for individual human beings. And it imagines, again in Crawford’s words, an “ambitious technological future that we want to live in and are excited to build.”
Contributing Editor J.D. Tuccille is nominated for best medical/health reporting in print and online for “When Your Heart Becomes a Snitch,” from the April 2024 issue o
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