Reason

Reason is a monthly magazine based in the United States that focuses on libertarian viewpoints, published by the Reason Foundation. It has a circulation of approximately 50,000 copies. In 2003 and 2004, the Chicago Tribune recognized it as one of the top 50 magazines.

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What Ronald Reagan's fusionist politics teach us about liberty, virtue, and their limits

2 days ago | reason.com | Stephanie Slade

Libertarianism Fusionism holds that virtue and liberty are mutually reinforcing, and that neither is possible in any lasting or meaningful way without the other.
Reporters Aren't Exempt from Ordinance Forbidding Presence in City Park from 10 pm to 6 am

2 days ago | reason.com | Eugene Volokh

Free Speech | From today's decision in State v. Bliss (N.C. Ct. App.), written by Judge Jeffery Carpenter and joined by Judges Julee Flood and Michael Stading: Defendants were journalists for The Asheville Blade, a newspaper.
Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": A Rosy Future

2 days ago | reason.com | Eugene Volokh

Free Speech | [This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I thought I'd serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got wrong.] [I]f the discussion in Parts I and II is correct, the new technologies will change the speech market much more dramatically than we've seen so far. Today's First Amendment law evolved in...
Managers May Be Liable to Fired Employee for Supposed "Unjustified Personal Vendetta"

2 days ago | reason.com | Eugene Volokh

Torts | In Bresler v.
The free speech implications of the OneTaste lawsuit

2 days ago | reason.com | Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Yes, some people feared leaving OneTaste, defense lawyer Jennifer Bonjean admitted on Monday. "There was fear of being kicked out of the group chat." Bonjean's client, Nicole Daedone, is co-founder of the sexual and spiritual wellness company OneTaste. Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste's former head of sales, are on trial for an alleged conspiracy to commit forced labor.
The dark side of genius

2 days ago | reason.com | Mike Judge |Suzanne Cryer |Kumail Nanjiani |Jimmy O. Yang |Nick Gillespie

Elon Musk In The Genius Myth, the journalist delivers a sharp, funny takedown of our obsession with "brilliant" men, showing that behind every so-called genius is a crowd and a big PR machine.
Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": A Few Words About the New Media and the First Amendment: Existing Flashpoints

3 days ago | reason.com | Eugene Volokh

Free Speech | [This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I thought I'd serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got wrong.] The proto-infobahn of today—the Internet, bulletin boards, and various commercial services—has already generated quite a few First Amendment controversies. Professor Anne Branscomb has...
Growing ranks of military homeschoolers get Defense Department support

3 days ago | reason.com | J.D. Tuccille

Last week, the Department of Defense ordered a review of the support it offers to military families that homeschool their children. DIY education is very popular among military personnel, who have long chosen homeschooling at roughly double the rate of the general population: 12 percent by the latest figures. They favor it for all the reasons parents have increasingly turned to directing their children's education, including academic quality, philosophy, flexibility, and safety concerns.
Brickbat: Road Hard

3 days ago | reason.com | Charles Oliver

Roads | (Andery Moskvitin | Dreamstime.com) Oakland residents, fed up with dangerous late-night sideshows where cars do stunts, built their own speed bumps on East 21st Street and 19th Avenue after the city ignored four years of pleas for help. Costing $3,000, these homemade speed bumps stopped the sideshows for eight months, but the city's Department of Transportation removed them for lacking official approval, angering locals who say the city doesn't care about their safety. Previously, the...
D.C. pauses plans to hike minimum wage for workers earning tips

3 days ago | reason.com | Billy Binion

Minimum Wage The issue has long polarized a city that is dominated by liberal and progressive politics and politicians, some of whom have confronted that good intentions do not equal good outcomes here.