Elon Musk has once again offered to buy Twitter—at his original price of $44 billion. Given that the social media company is currently suing the world’s wealthiest man in order to force him to purchase the company, it seems likely that Twitter might accept this proposal. For some mainstream media reporters on the so-named disinformation […]
Maitland Jones Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Princeton University. In 2007, he semi-retired and began teaching organic chemistry at New York University on an adjunct basis. Not anymore: NYU has fired Jones after students circulated a petition protesting that his class was too hard. But according to Jones, the students weren’t putting in […]
YouTube removed a video of incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni elaborating on her conservative vision for the country during a 2019 speech. This was a curious decision that attracted widespread scorn from conservative media outlets, given the recent interest in the philosophy of Meloni, who is expected to become the first woman to lead […]
President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt violates both federal law and the Constitution, according to a just-filed lawsuit from the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a libertarian law firm. “This isn’t how laws are supposed to be made,” Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney for PLF, tells Reason. “Only Congress […]
Jihad Rehab is a documentary by Meg Smaker, a former firefighter who moved from California to Yemen and then to Saudi Arabia following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Subsequent to its inclusion at the January 2022 Sundance Film Festival, both the film and filmmaker have become pariahs in elite film circles—mostly because Smaker, a white […]
On Wednesday, a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s vaccine and mask mandate for the early education program, Head Start. “Although vaccines arguably serve the public interest, the liberty interests of individuals mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh any interest generated by the mandatory administration of vaccines,” wrote Judge Terry Doughty of the […]
On Sunday, President Joe Biden made an important declaration: He conceded, at long last, that the pandemic is finally over. He acknowledged that COVID-19 is still around and might never go away entirely; we’ll still be dealing with it, in some form, for years to come. But vaccines that drastically reduce the likelihood of severe […]
