We Have a Printing Paper Problem
I, Magazine, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe. I am seemingly so simple, yet not a single person on the face of this Earth knows …
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You’re Wrong About Disinformation
Humans get stuff wrong. We do it all the time. We’re biased and blind and overconfident. We’re bad at paying attention and terrible at remembering. We’re prone to constructing self-serving …
Artist Agnieszka Pilat: ‘I Didn’t Realize People Still Think Socialism Is a Good Idea.’
What sorts of paintings will be hanging in the museums of the future? Agnieszka Pilat thinks we’ll be looking at what she calls “heroic portraits of machines”—fine-art renderings of the …
Canceling Putin, Canceling Russians
Reason works with a contractor who lives in small-town Siberia. As Vladimir Putin’s tank convoy rolled toward Kyiv in early March and a flurry of economic sanctions were imposed on …
How Robots Will Transform the 2020s
There are now some 120,000 warehouses globally, and another 50,000 are likely to be added before 2025. Over the next few years, more robots will be deployed into these warehouses—the …
Defending Armed Self-Defense
Gun control laws are wrong because they violate the right to self-defense. Gun control laws are wrong because they were historically crafted with discriminatory intent and create racially disparate outcomes …
Own a Piece of Reason History
Established in 1968, Reason has a long history of discovering, inventing, and championing the future. We were the first serious magazine to champion outlandish, seemingly insane policies such as drug …
After Becoming the Oldest Man To Visit Space, William Shatner Makes an Emotional Case for Private Space Tourism
Today, at age 90, actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel into space aboard private space company Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule. His post-launch remarks about the transformative …
The Unexpected, Predictable End of the War in Afghanistan
Sometimes winning looks and feels like losing. This summer’s bloody, tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a predictable disaster. It was also an incredible, surprising anti-war victory. My own thoroughly jaded …
COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups Of Resistors In Our Future?
COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups Of Resistors In Our Future? Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “No doubt concentration camps were a means, …