When I’m trapped in New York City, and the February winds rattle the windows of my house, and the trees outside are bare, and even my wetsuit—which the 38-degree ocean feels somehow too cold for—lies fallow in the closet, I turn on The Endless Summer. I don’t need to tell you it’s from 1966; you’ll know […]
Before you ask, they keep making Jurassic Park movies because you keep paying to see them. Maybe not you, specifically. But people, who drove the last three films in the franchise to billions in combined box office revenue. Dinosaurs, or at least dinosaur movies, are big business. So the existence of Jurassic World Rebirth—or as […]
Avowed, the latest role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, casts the player as a magical envoy of the Aedyr Empire. You travel to a far-off land to investigate a plague known as the Dream Scourge. Along the way, you encounter various governmental figures—local rulers and representatives Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website […]
In Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism, two Swiss sociologists, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, indulge in a common academic habit: blaming libertarians for an intellectual and social phenomena that they find alarming. Their bill of particulars fails to stick because of conceptual incoherence, mistaking radical opposition to any government policy—even one that allows more liberty than […]
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged doctors to cut back on opioid prescriptions in 2016, Charles LeBaron thought the advice made sense. LeBaron, a physician who was a CDC medical epidemiologist for nearly three decades, believed doctors had been too loose with pain medication, contributing to a dramatic increase in opioid-related […]
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31 Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation’s institutions mobilized against the Communists believed […]