“Anyone but Joe,” anyone? Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Spending the last few weeks laughing at the Republicans over their self-inflicted imbroglio/embroilment trying to elect a speaker for the House of Representatives was a treat. Well, now it’s our turn to suffer, as Uncle Joe’s Corvette winter plus the upcoming Hunter Biden follies, which…
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Clarence Thomas to Brethren: Why Can’t You Guys Listen to “Reason”?
Why indeed? The Supreme Court recently refused the opportunity to consider a raft of lower court decisions regarding both the Second Amendment and the “qualified immunity” extended to public officials—most “controversially” (that is to say, most inappropriately), as applied to the police— protecting them against law suits for their actions—like blowing someone’s head off for…
Stadia Mania! Why the heart hath reasons that Reason knows not of
It’s no stretch to say that “Reason” magazine does not ♥ public funding of sports arenas. You can get a fair sample of Reasonette bile regarding sports arenas here. And I agree: public funding of sports arenas—most egregiously, the fabled NFL franchises—makes no economic sense. Yet it happens, constantly. So it must make some sort…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alan Vanneman regrets to admit that he has nothing intelligent or informed to say about the ISIS crisis. Instead, he will write about nail salons.
You read Sarah Maslin Nir’s two-part exposé of New York nail salons the New York Times. You read the “How I got the story” interview with Nir in the Times. You read the rebuttal by nail salon owner and former New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein. You read the NYT rebuttal to Bernstein’s rebuttal. And…
Libertarian Rag attacks Obamacare for applying free market principles to health care
“Reason” magazine is in fact one of my favorite sites, and I urge all 17 of my readers to check it out, but sometimes one’s schadenfreude can run ahead of one’s “reason.” Here, Reasonette Robby Soave chuckles over the plight of Harvard profs who suddenly discover that, thanks to their man Obama, they have to…
Forget the high-speed rail—there’s a brand-new way out of Folsom!
Readers of either Matthew Yglesia’s liberal blog or Reason’s libertarian one know of the liberals’ passionate love of high-speed rail (why can’t we be more like Europe?) and the libertarians’ detestation of the same (because Europe sucks, that’s why!). Well, James Fallows, inspired by the burgeoning air-taxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area, may…