In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss how President Donald Trump is de-prioritizing due process by not adhering to a ruling from the Supreme Court. They also talk about how Harvard University’s tax status could be in jeopardy and reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis. 0:00—Introduction 0:12—The Pope’s legacy 5:56—Is the democracy emergency here? 15:27—Deportations without due process 29:19—Harvard funding pause 41:25—Weekly listener question 48:11—Lightning round: What’s happening at the Pentagon? What’s going […]
Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother, by Robert S. Bader, Applause Books, 368 pages, $34.95 Shemp!: The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, The Face Of Film Comedy, by Burt Kearns, Applause Books, 280 pages, $32.95 When you think of the Marx Brothers, you likely think of Groucho’s wisecracks, Harpo’s sight gags, and even Chico’s piano specialties. You don’t think about their brother Zeppo. When you think of the Three Stooges, you likely think of three guys slapping […]
Twenty years after it was passed, the REAL ID Act may finally be enforced. However, the decades between the law’s passage and its enforcement show that, as a terrorism-prevention measure, it is hardly needed in the first place. Making matters worse, as more than a dozen states are less than 50 percent compliant, the law may make domestic air travel more difficult—or even impossible—for millions of Americans. The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005 as part of […]
Neal McCluskey On April 22, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The case pits parents in Montgomery County, MD, who wanted to opt their children out of class readings at odds with their religious convictions, against a district that mandated the children participate to foster tolerance of diverse lifestyles. As I explain in this new Reason piece, an opt-out is the bare minimum deference to families. I and Mustafa Akyol delved more deeply […]
Despite its many logical flaws, Marxism remains popular in many academic and political circles. However, Marx‘s Labor Theory of Value still undergirds the entire Marxian structure, and debunking it destroys his entire system.
In the spring of 2020, many churches in the United States closed down. They were told to. I am willing to forgive that behavior. In fact, I think I’m commanded to forgive that behavior. I get it. People were scared. Maybe a week you stay closed until you come to your senses. Maybe two weeks, because they assured us it took only two weeks to slow the spread. It took a special kind of wrong to close down […]
This Easter, we’ve hidden a dozen colorful, egg-centric stories across Reason.com. Hop around the site to find them—or click here to see them all in one basket. The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain, and perhaps even earlier, to early Christian Europe and Mesopotamia. But these were not the first colored eggs. Researchers have recently determined that they likely appeared about 150 million years ago. The story of that […]
It was a very, very, very small minority of human beings that were not complicit in the Scamdemic Holocaust (defined by the Oxford Dictionary as a “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale”). Most human beings were either active perpetrators of or passive consenters to it. In 2020, a small minority of very evil human beings conspired to create Hell on Earth, with a large majority of dwellers, many of whom were perfectly happy in their new dwelling place. All, […]