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Bitcoin at 10
Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency, by Finn Brunton, Princeton University Press, 272 pages, $26.95 As bitcoin turns 10, a new...
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Occult Features of Anarchism
Erica Lagalisse's Occult Features of Anarchism is a history of secret societies and revolutionary movements, but it isn't one of those paranoid screeds in which every insurrection is allegedly...
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The Long Shadow of the Palmer Raids
The last of the Palmer raids happened a century ago, at the end of January 1920. Launched the previous November by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, the raids had been a sweeping crackdown: Police...
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A Kurdish Experiment in Decentralized Governance
The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts, by Harriet Allsopp and Wladimir van Wilgenburg, I.B. Tauris, 264 pages, $34.95 Syria's Kurds have managed to defeat ISIS, manage...
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Karl Hess: From Republican Speechwriter to New Left Radical to Libertarian...
Karl Hess was a journalist, activist, speechwriter, and welder whose work managed to foreshadow both the Tea Party movement and Occupy Wall Street, sometimes simultaneously. As he grew disillusioned...
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Libertarian Party Picks Spike Cohen as Its Vice-Presidential Candidate
Spike Cohen, who runs Muddied Waters Media, won the Libertarian Party's nomination for vice-president today. On the online convention's third ballot, Cohen got 533 votes—52 percent of the...
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Seattle Protesters Establish 'Autonomous Zone' Outside Evacuated Police Precinct
Anti-police-brutality demonstrations are cooling off in much of the country. Not so in Seattle, where over a week of protests and street clashes has resulted in police abandoning a precinct building,...
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Don't 'Abolish the Police.' Privatize Them.
Instead of "abolish the police" or "defund the police," how about "privatize the police"? In a June NPR interview, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D–N.Y.) said that "policing is not a marketplace. You can't...
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Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
Scenes inside and outside the White House gates last night presented a stark and jarring contrast. On one side, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence used the place—and, later, the...
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The Justice Department Sees 'Anarchy' Overtaking New York City. If Only That...
Today, the Department of Justice declared that New York City, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, are "permitting anarchy, violence, and destruction." This isn't just about Attorney General William Barr...
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Resolve the 'Anarchist Jurisdictions' Dispute With Less Government Meddling
If only all it took to sweep away intrusive and incompetent governments was a declaration that they're "anarchist jurisdictions." Suffering residents of these communities might then be spared...
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Seeing Like an Anarchist
Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti, by Johnhenry Gonzalez, Yale University Press, 302 pages, $40 "In media and popular consciousness, Haiti has become identified with hunger," Johnhenry...
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The Conservative Trans Woman Who Went Undercover With Antifa in Portland
Erin Smith was at a GOP election watch party at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on November 8, 2016. For the one-time deputy vice chair of communications for the city Republication Party, it...
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Dorothy Day: Personalist Hero
Dorothy Day's first jail stint, in 1917, was a brutal experience arising from a protest for women's suffrage. Behind bars she embarked on a hunger strike and came to know the misery of forced feeding....
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Neutron Gun Reloaded
There was a time, not that many decades ago, when ranting loners swapped their ideas not with tweets and YouTube videos but with stamps and Xerox machines. One of those ranters was Gerry Reith, whose...
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CW's The Republic of Sarah Is No Free State Project
The Republic of Sarah. The CW. Monday, June 14, 9 p.m. Created only in 2006, The CW is America's youngest broadcast network, and a lot of its audience (target demo: women ages 13 to 34) isn't much...
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How To Snap Out of a Post-COVID Funk
Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie share their long weekend highlights and how they'd respond to mid-twenties melancholia on this week's Reason Roundtable. Discussed...
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Autonomous Mexico
I first heard about the autonomous movements in Mexico from my anarcho-communist college buddies in the early 1990s. They loved the idea of indigenous people taking up arms and seizing control of...
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Do We Need the CDC?
With two Reason Roundtable regulars on vacation, Reason's Liz Wolfe and Stephanie Slade join Katherine Mangu-Ward and Peter Suderman to discuss the latest disastrous moves in COVID-19 regulations and...
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Dangerous Visions and New Worlds
Like many American kids, I grew up reading science fiction. Since I was born in 1970, that meant the tales I took in were frequently filled not just with spaceships and time travel but with...
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Review: The Second Shooter
Despite caricaturing (some) gun owners, Nick Mamatas' conspiracy-fueled science fiction novel The Second Shooter avoids moralizing in favor of dark humor. His protagonist is Mike Karras, a cynical...
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How Would You Change the Constitution?
This Fourth of July, watching people fight over what the Constitution means, I ask people, if you could change the Constitution, what would you change? "The forefathers knew what they were doing,"...
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What If We Tried Anarchy? HBO's The Anarchists Explores.
What happens when a bunch of radical individualists try to start a community? That's the subject of The Anarchists, a new six-part docuseries from director Todd Schramke and his wife and co-producer...
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How Faithful Is The Rings of Power to J.R.R. Tolkien's Anti-Statism?
Film and TV adaptions of literary works typically take one of two paths. They either try to be faithful to the events and themes of the source material, or they creatively reinvent the work to make a...
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Review: The AnCap Revolution Goes to Mexico in The Anarchists
Utopian political communities are hard to get off the ground, regardless of their ideological underpinnings. Trying to create them out of a drug- and booze-fueled conference in a Mexican resort city...
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Have 'Delusion and Greed'—and Murray Rothbard—Destroyed Libertarianism?
The libertarian movement has lost its way over the past 60 years as it's shifted from Friedrich Hayek's classical liberal corrective to Depression-era central planning to Murray Rothbard's full-blown...
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Andrew Koppelman: 'Delusion and Greed' Have Destroyed Libertarianism
The libertarian movement has lost its way over the past 60 years as it's shifted from Friedrich Hayek's classical liberal corrective to Depression-era central planning to Murray Rothbard's full-blown...
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The Militant Pacifists of World War II
War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst, Melville House, 368 pages, $23.19 In 1940, during the twilight between peace and war, a...
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An Anarchist's Guide to War
War and Peace: On the Principle and Constitution of the Right of Peoples, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, edited by Alex Prichard and translated by Paul Sharkey, AK Press, 625 pages, $30 While...
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Succession's Logan Roy: Not Actually an Anarcho-Capitalist
Spoiler alert: This post contains plot spoilers for the fourth season of Succession. Proceed at your own risk. Last night's episode of Succession on HBO featured what might be the first ever use of...
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The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless
Here is one version of the left-right spectrum, as described in 1975 by a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had left the conservative movement to break bread with Black Panthers and Wobblies....
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Are Libertarians Greedy and Delusional? A Soho Forum Debate
Northwestern University law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "Libertarianism has been thoroughly corrupted by delusion, greed, and disdain for the...
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Are Libertarians Greedy and Delusional?
Northwestern University law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "Libertarianism has been thoroughly corrupted by delusion, greed, and disdain for the...
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Biden's ATF Can't Stop Cody Wilson's Ghost Guns
When the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) issued a new rule to expand the definition of "firearm" to encompass "weapon parts kit[s]…designed to or may readily be assembled,...
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Before There Was Christian Nationalism, There Was Christian Anarchism
Around the turn of the third century, an African bishop named Tertullian mused about the relationship between Christians and the state. The previous century had seen a large number of Christians...
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Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster? A Soho Forum Debate
Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity."...
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Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster?
Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity."...
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Love, Trade, and Force: The Machinery of Freedom at 50
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The Best of Reason Magazine: Love, Trade, and Force: The Machinery of Freedom...
This week's featured article is "Love, Trade, and Force: The Machinery of Freedom at 50" by Katherine Mangu-Ward. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music...
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Milton Friedman Was No Conservative
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The Best of Reason: Milton Friedman Was No Conservative
This week's featured article is "Milton Friedman Was No Conservative" by Brian Doherty. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought"...
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Rothbardian Javier Milei Takes Control of a Major Country
Fans of Austrian economist, major theorizer of anarcho-capitalism, polemical firebrand, and American libertarian movement founding father Murray Rothbard can take some cheer in the fact that it took...
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Jennifer Burns: Why Milton Friedman Matters More Than Ever
Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all? That's part of the conversation I had with today's guest, Stanford historian Jennifer Burns, who has written a masterful and definitive...
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A Social Anarchist Issues a Challenge
Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny, by Jesse Spafford, Cambridge University Press, 242 pages, $110 What do anarchists advocate? It depends on whom you ask. Among free market...
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Feds Worried About Anarchists Gluing the Locks to a Government Facility
May Day was coming up and the feds were worried. In April 2015, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent out a bulletin warning that "anarchist extremists will probably engage in criminal or...
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What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance, and...
James C. Scott, who died July 19 at age 87, was one of the most original and radical political theorists of the past century. Beginning as a political scientist studying Southeast Asia and then...
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When Attacks on Anarchists Accidentally Improved Free Speech Law
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Michael Willrich, Basic Books, 480 pages, $35 The lawmaking and policing...
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The Anarchist Dreams: Dispatch From the DNC
Full disclosure: I got into a little physical altercation yesterday with the Chicago police and lost my notepad in the scuffle. We'll get to that, but for now please forgive any errors in the...
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