Let’s Have Fewer Public Statues

If you think America’s statue battles are at a fever pitch, then consider the battles that Europeans have waged over statues following the demise of the totalitarian Soviet regime. During …

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Today in Supreme Court History: July 3, 1941

7/3/1941: Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone takes oath. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent …

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Action Park

Action Park was the Somalia of theme parks, a New Jersey thunderdome for people who preferred risk to rules. It was founded in the mid-1970s by Gene Mulvihill, an eccentric …

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Brickbat: No True Scot

A Scottish court has fined Terry Myers £280 (about $345) for sending threatening emails to his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Because the man was born in Ireland and Myers referred to …

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