Jesse Walker

5 days ago | jessewalker.blogspot.com | Jesse Walker |Jorge Luis Borges

crossed swords online a few months earlier on the topic of his proposed "Academic Bill of Rights," and the campus Republican and libertarian clubs wanted us to argue about this in person. I said sure. Horowitz either didn't realize he was going to be debating someone (as opposed to giving a speech) or didn't realize he was going to be debating a libertarian (as opposed to a conventional liberal or leftist), and a few weeks before the event he called me to try to get me to pull out.

1 week ago | reason.com | Jesse Walker

Media A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.

4 weeks ago | reason.com | Jesse Walker

Media Republicans often call for cutting off the funds but have never actually done the deed. Here's why this time might—might—be different.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Walker

The man on the motorcycle was an anarchist, a lawbreaker, a guy the Black Panthers could turn to when their leader needed transportation; his FBI file fretted that he might "participate in violent activities, such as bombings, should the right opportunity present itself." He was in Vermont to speak at a hippie college, but he took a detour to visit someone else in a mountainside cabin about 40 miles away. It was the middle of the 1970s.

1 month ago | reason.com | Jesse Walker

Conspiracy Theories A new book explores the legacy of the Report on Iron Mountain, while another probes the life of the novelist and essayist Robert Anton Wilson.