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Reason is the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets." It covers politics, culture, and ideas through aprovocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity.

Reason • VOLUME 55, NO. 5

The Sticky Spaghetti School of Constitutional Law

Border Buoys

Montreal: It’s All French to Me

Faux Pas

What’s in Your Bug-Out Bag?

America’s Immigrant Brain Drain

When Local Control Is Local Confusion

Civics in Public Schools Won’t Fix American Democracy

The Price of a Good Time • AT REASON, WE’RE keeping an eye on the price of vice. The Sindex tracks changes in prices economywide and compares them with a basket of sins: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more. The data come from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, so unfortunately the prices of illegal vices like marijuana and commercial sex aren’t included. The most recent data here cover June 2023.

Subsidies Won’t Stop Stagnation

Taylor Swift, Junk Fees, and the ‘Happy Meal Fallacy’

Affirmative Action Loses in Court

SCOTUS Rejects Compelled Speech

Q&A Rick Perry

‘I Knew They Were Scumbags’ • HOW FEDERAL PRISON GUARDS CONFESSED TO RAPE—AND GOT AWAY WITH IT

How Hippies Saved the Fourth Amendment • THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION DID EVERYTHING IT COULD TO CURB ANTIWAR ACTIVISM. THEN THE COURTS SAID IT HAD GONE TOO FAR.

‘Private Tyranny’ Is Less Private Than You Think • SOHRAB AHMARI INADVERTENTLY GIVES EVEN MORE REASONS TO REDUCE THE POWER OF THE STATE.

Africa’s Planned Cities Need Unplanning • NIGERIA’S SLUMS AND STARTUP CITIES CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.

THE PIRATE PRESERVATIONS • WHEN KEEPING CULTURAL ARCHIVES SAFE MEANS STEPPING OUTSIDE THE LAW

EVERYTHING IS FUNNY AND NOTHING IS SACRED • Fox’s Kat Timpf on why joking around is a vital form of free expression

TRUE CRIME DISTORTS THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIME • POPULAR PODCASTS AND SHOWS PORTRAY CRIME AS SALACIOUS AND SEXY, FAILING ORDINARY VICTIMS IN THE PROCESS.

Markets, Misunderstood • A sweeping new book on the history of free market thought misses the mark.

Progress Is Not Automatic • The wrongheaded quest to “break” the tech visionaries’ “monopoly over agenda setting”

REVIEWS

ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

Unhappy Birthday to America’s Drug Warriors

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