Jesse Walker

1 week 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 week 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.

1 month ago | reason.com | Jesse Walker

Politics How John McClaughry and Karl Hess fought to decentralize power—one from inside the system, one ever further from it | (Illustration: Joanna Andreasson) This article is currently available to Reason Plus subscribers only. If you are a Reason Plus subscriber, log in here. Or . Your Reason Plus subscription gives you instant access to brand new Reason magazine content and 50 years of Reason magazine archives....

1 month ago | reason.com | Jesse Walker

Telecommunications Policy Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.