The Best of Reason Magazine

The Best of Reason: Rise of the Samurai Lawyers 02.04.2025 10:23 ↓

An economist explores how a stable and relatively just legal order emerged in medieval Japan.

The Best of Reason: When the Government Puts Wolves in Your Backyard 25.03.2025 18:11 ↓

Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.

The Best of Reason: Trump's Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism 18.03.2025 16:12 ↓

The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.

The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East? 11.03.2025 16:50 ↓

The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets.

The Best of Reason: Inside the Russian Occupation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 04.03.2025 9:05 ↓

Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy's book tells the stories of soldiers, stalkers, and squatters in Chernobyl during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Best of Reason: Surrogacy Is the New Battleground in Reproductive Freedom 25.02.2025 20:01 ↓

Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.

The Best of Reason: Javier Milei Ended Rent Control. Now the Argentine Real Estate Market Is Coming Back to Life. 19.02.2025 18:25 ↓

"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.

The Best of Reason: How the Fair Housing Act Gave Us Emotional Support Parrots 11.02.2025 20:00 ↓

The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.

The Best of Reason: The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need 04.02.2025 17:04 ↓

How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary "self-licking ice cream cones."

The Best of Reason: Cutting Off Trade Will Make the U.S. Poorer and China More Totalitarian 29.01.2025 16:41 ↓

Politicians in both major parties see the People's Republic as an economic and military threat. But the real threat is an isolated China.

The Best of Reason: 'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact' 14.01.2025 28:14 ↓

How a 1949 Supreme Court dissent gave birth to a meme that subverts free speech and civil liberties.

The Best of Reason: The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk 07.01.2025 27:53 ↓

Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?

The Best of Reason: Bidenomics Goes Out With a Whimper 31.12.2024 3:34 ↓

There's a good reason Biden eventually stopped saying Bidenomics. Americans didn't like the results of his economic policies.

The Best of Reason: The Great American City Upon a Hill Is Always Under Construction 17.12.2024 15:40 ↓

American history is often a story of people leaving to try to build their voluntary utopias.

The Best of Reason: Everybody Hates Prices 10.12.2024 19:05 ↓

How much should a Wendy's Baconator cost? Elizabeth Warren thinks the government should help decide.

The Best of Reason: The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media 03.12.2024 30:08 ↓

Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.

The Best of Reason: Abolish the DEA, ICE, and the Small Business Administration 26.11.2024 15:07 ↓

In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the DEA, ICE, the SBA, and everything else.

The Best of Reason: Abolish Amtrak, the FDA, and the TSA 19.11.2024 14:06 ↓

In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.

The Best of Reason: Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career? 13.11.2024 5:09 ↓

A recent study shows that women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty," but their earnings rebound within a decade.

The Best of Reason: How the Political Spectrum Turned Inside Out 05.11.2024 27:11 ↓

From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape.

The Best of Reason: Secession Is Back in Style in Texas 29.10.2024 26:07 ↓

Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.

The Best of Reason: Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida 22.10.2024 19:27 ↓

Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.

The Best of Reason Magazine: How Did Immigration Politics Get So Toxic? 15.10.2024 24:08 ↓

Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.

The Best of Reason: Kamala Harris' Freedom Flip-Flop 08.10.2024 22:47 ↓

Harris is running away from her far-left past.

The Best of Reason: Can This Psychedelic Help Cure Opioid Addiction? 02.10.2024 35:48 ↓

This Kentucky Republican won't stop until he finds a state willing to make legal room for ibogaine, a drug he calls "God's medicine."