Yoga and meditation were once seen by Americans “as weird and culty,” Nicole Daedone tells Reason. “Any new, profoundly healing protocol is seen as dark.” Daedone is the founder of OneTaste, an “orgasmic meditation” group that’s come under fire from federal authorities. She and OneTaste’s former head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, are currently being prosecuted […]
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Wow! These are the most powerful and consequential 36 words spoken by any US President. Ever. “One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, ‘let’s cut our military budget in half.’ And we can do that.” Yes, from the […]
President Trump is cleaning house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. Upset over some of the center’s performances and possibly miffed over the fact that three honorees in 2017 didn’t want to meet with him, Trump fired Biden-appointed board members and others, criticized the center’s programming, and, amazingly, […]
Jim O’Shaughnessy is a superstar investor and venture capitalist who leads O’Shaughnessy Ventures and hosts the popular Infinite Loops podcast. He’s also the coauthor of the new collection Two Thoughts, which compiles provocative quotes from figures ranging from Sam Adams and Ludwig von Mises to Frank Zappa. O’Shaughnessy chats with Reason‘s Nick Gillespie about the power of free […]
On February 7, 2025, President Donald Trump appointed Russell Vought to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Shortly after, Vought announced that he had notified the Federal Reserve that the CFPB would not take its next draw of unappropriated funding. “This spigot, long contributing to CFPB’s unaccountability, is now being turned off.” The CFPB […]
When I was in Catholic graduate studies, our instructors would alert us to incoming papal encyclicals. Excitement would build, delectatory anticipation of what Pope John Paul might say. When it was finally promulgated, it would be all the buzz during class breaks, as we sieved out insights about suffering, women, the elderly, and always, always Jesus […]
Yesterday, I blogged about the Justice Department’s pending motion to dismiss in the criminal case against Mayor Adams. My argument was that the dismissal motion was easy to justify, particularly given the new Administration’s change in priorities for law enforcement. I also noted that the Department’s dismissal motion would be subject district court review under […]
DOGE update: Last week, some 220,000 probationary workers—those who’d been at their agencies for under a year or two—started getting laid off, a process that should result in 4 percent of the federal workforce being axed once all is done. Many critics have lingered on the fact that 300 of those probationary workers cut were […]