The multiverse has not been kind to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Since the pandemic, the nearly 20-year-old comic book megafranchise has been mired in alternate worlds and throwaway what-ifs that have muddled its simple superhero pleasures. For the last five years, the MCU has become an exercise in nerdy recall, a blockbuster franchise with […]
X Corp., formerly Twitter, has finally scored a win in its decade-long free speech fight against the federal government. In 2023, a magistrate judge issued a year-long nondisclosure order prohibiting X from “disclosing subpoenas, warrants, or court orders for customer records” it received from the Justice Department (DOJ). In 2024, X received a subpoena from […]
A food crisis in Gaza has reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation,” according to officials from the World Food Program, an arm of the United Nations that provides nutritional assistance around the globe. They estimate that about 20 percent of the 2.1 million people still living in the besieged strip are facing starvation conditions. […]
In 2024, I was honored to deliver the Roscoe Pound Lecture at the University of Nebraska College of Law. The article based on that lecture is now in print, and until the Nebraska Law Review updates its website with the contents of issue 4 of volume 103 you can find a PDF of the article […]
The most dysfunctional participants in the online gender wars just faced a major blow. The traditionalist online right frequently opines about how, as one representative post on X recently put it, “[High-value] men would rather marry a humble, cute Waffle House waitress than deal with a empowered boss b*tch.” But it turns out that the […]
One recent public-opinion poll asked Americans their thoughts on different periods of European history. Most Americans probably know little about events that took place in their own country 10 years ago, but they nevertheless expressed to YouGov fairly strong opinions about Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Late Antiquity. I still found it reassuring that the […]
7/25/1965: Justice Arthur J. Goldberg resigns. Justice Arthur Goldberg The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 25, 1965 appeared first on Reason.com. Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing the principles of individual freedom, limited government, […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R–S.D.) is under White House pressure to speed the process of confirming President Donald Trump’s nominees, among them Casey Means, the pick for surgeon general. While she has the support of her alma mater, the Stanford School of Medicine, Means is controversial because she lacks an active medical license and […]
In this long national moment of plummeting societal trust, institutional collapse, and life-and-death political acrimony, can something so gloriously frivolous as baseball teach us a thing or two about the lost art of forgiveness? That’s an intriguing subplot to this weekend’s annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York. Two of the most […]
The Vikings were certainly world travelers: From home bases in Scandinavia they made their way as far west as North America, as far south as North Africa, and as far east as Russia and the Middle East. They were infamous as raiders, and their long wooden warships sparked terror. But t Read More Article from […]