Where do Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson get off spending their own money to go into space when we already have a scandal-ridden and incompetent public agency for that very purpose? All Richard Branson ever did was give away half his fortune after foisting Tubular Bells and the Sex Pistols on the world. All Jeff […]
Today’s advertiser is inkl, a unique “best of news” service that unlocks $12,000 worth of news for just $75 a year (go here for that special rate for Reason fans). “Freedom was the slogan of the times. The word was invoked to justify everything,” writes Louis Menand at the start of his wide-ranging and endlessly […]
Jane Coaston is the new host of The Argument, a massively popular New York Times podcast that seeks to showcase civil and informed discussions about the most pressing issues of the day. A 33-year-old Cincinnati native, Coaston has worked at Vox, MTV, and the Human Rights Campaign, among other places. She is the daughter of […]
On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans in dozens of cities around the island nation took to the streets to protest the country’s communist dictatorship and persistent shortages in food, energy, and medicine, all of which have been made worse by the pandemic. The demonstrations have been enabled by social media and the internet, which […]
On July 11, thousands of Cubans in dozens of cities around the island nation took to the streets to protest the country’s communist dictatorship and chronic shortages in food, energy, and medicine, all of which have been made worse by the pandemic. These are the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Cuba in decades, the size and […]
“In the last decade, there’s been a sudden explosion…in teenage girls identifying as transgender,” says Abigail Shrier, author of Irrervisible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. “My book explores what’s going on. Why do so many young teenage girls suddenly decide that they want to leave womanhood? And why are so many doctors and […]
In an age of increasingly ubiquitous government surveillance, security breaches, and high-profile cancellations, in which internet giants have ultimate control over users’ online profiles, credentials, and data, Microsoft is helping to build a technology that would give individuals ownership rights over their own virtual identities. The mission of the ION project is to build Decentralized […]
Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters was one of last year’s most celebrated—and condemned—books. It showed up in year-end lists of top books but was also banned by Target and her publisher was disallowed from buying ads at Amazon.* “Abigail Shrier’s book is a dangerous polemic with a goal of making […]
Few figures in the bitcoin community are as controversial and visionary as Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift. Back when cryptocurrency was in its infancy and its conferences included lectures delivered to empty rooms, Voorhees was helping to popularize bitcoin’s unique attributes with an unregulated online casino called SatoshiDice. After he […]
Few figures in the bitcoin community are as controversial and visionary as Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift. Back when cryptocurrency was in its infancy and its conferences included lectures delivered to empty rooms, Voorhees was helping to popularize bitcoin’s unique attributes with an unregulated online casino called SatoshiDice. After he […]
