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President Lyndon B. Johnson’s TV Station and the “Blind Trust”

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I recently wrote about the purportedly “blind” trust created for President Jimmy Carter’s peanut business. President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a “blind” trust created for his television station. In 1943, Lady Bird Johnson purchased a small radio station in Austin, Texas for $17,500. Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon […]

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Helen Prejean: Why This Nun Is Fighting To End the Death Penalty

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Today’s guest is Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun famous for her activism against the death penalty. In the early 1980s, Prejean met a prisoner on death row—Elmo Patrick Sonnier—after an activist asked her to write him a letter. She served as Sonnier’s spiritual adviser and accompanied him to his death, which inspired her work against […]

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Wicked and the Importance of the Public Domain

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Every January 1, numerous creative works enter the public domain, meaning their copyrights have expired and they can be freely shared, sold, or adapted. Last year Mickey and Minnie Mouse—or at least their original incarnations—entered the public domain, and starting today such classic works as Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms, Alfred Hitchcock’s film […]

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The 10 Most Infuriating Challenges to Free-Range Parenting in 2024

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Without further ado, here are 10 stories from 2024 that drove free-range parents crazy. Child Reported Walking: As Reason was the very first to report, authorities charged Georgia mom Brittany Patterson with “reckless conduct” after her son, age 10, walked to town—population 370—without telling her. The cops came to her home, handcuffed her in front of her […]

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