Markets in Not-Quite-Everything: Post-Pandemic Insurance
Suppose that you own a restaurant. Because you have had to close your business, the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed on you a great loss. It will be too late to …
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Michigan Gov. Rolls Back Some of State’s More Insane Coronavirus Restrictions
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) announced Friday that she is rolling back several of the more arbitrary and contentious restrictions in the state’s stay-at-home order. Whitmer received a steady stream …
Will Summer’s Heat, Humidity, and Sunlight Help Us Slow COVID-19?
Laboratory experiments show that heat, humidity, and exposure to sunlight significantly speed up the rates at which the novel coronavirus is destroyed, according to data revealed yesterday at the White …
People Stuck at Home Are Making and Watching Porn. Everybody Panic!
There’s some evidence that Americans are buying more junk food, drinking more alcohol, playing more video games, consuming more marijuana, and watching more porn while stuck at home during the …
Social Security Will Be Insolvent Even Sooner Than Expected, Thanks to COVID-19 Pandemic
The trustees of the Social Security Administration released their annual report on the program’s long-term solvency on Wednesday—but the report is likely already out of date since it doesn’t take …
Is It Time to End the Coronavirus Lockdowns? A Soho Forum Debate
The US economy should be liberated from the governments’ lockdowns right away. That was the resolution of a virtual debate hosted by the Soho Forum via Zoom on Tuesday, April …
Cellphone-Tracking Can Help Fight the Pandemic Only If Governments Resist Their Snoopy Instincts
In the battle against COVID-19, public health types desperately want the ability to track people’s movements to test the effectiveness of social-distancing commandments and also to trace contacts between people …
COVID-19 Could Force City Planners To Rethink Their Priorities
All we need are ankle bracelets and Americans would understand what it’s like to be sentenced to home confinement. In a short drive to a grocery store in town last …
Today in Supreme Court History: April 24, 1963
4/24/1963: Sherbert v. Verner argued. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIxVCwkL3s?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, technology, …
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In 2014, an exporter of used electronics from the U.K. to Lagos, Nigeria, was sentenced to 16 months in prison and over 142,000 British pounds in fines. His crime? Helping …