Journalism
How a Baseball Non-Fight Illustrates Our Weird Journalistic Discourse on Racism
There was an odd moment at this past Saturday’s baseball game between the hometown New York Yankees and the visiting Chicago White Sox. With zero precipitating physical contact, Yankees hitter Josh Donaldson and White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal began jawboning, getting into each other’s faces, and then the benches cleared and the bullpens emptied as […]
NPR Tries To Cancel Stoner Metal Legend Matt Pike
Music journalist Grayson Haver Currin really wants you to know that stoner metal pioneer Matt Pike—best known for his shirtless live performances, bigfoot hunting videos, and hour-long, single-song concept albums about pot-smoking mystics traveling across an alien desert—harbors some weird, problematic, and even “dangerous” beliefs. Last week, NPR published Currin’s lengthy profile of Pike, a founding […]
Reason Is a Finalist for 8 Southern California Journalism Awards
The Los Angeles Press Club on Monday announced the finalists for the 64th Southern California Journalism Awards recognizing work published in 2021. Reason, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, is a finalist in eight categories. We’d like to thank both the judges who reviewed our submissions, and the Reason readers, viewers, and listeners who make […]
New York Times Columnist Gail Collins Proposes a ‘Simple Battle’ To ‘Get Rid of the Guns’
If we are “sick of massacres,” says the headline over Gail Collins’ latest New York Times column, we should “get rid of the guns.” Which guns? Collins herself is not sure. Sometimes she seems to be talking about the rifles that politicians call “assault weapons.” She refers a few times to “assault rifles” and mentions “the […]