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A former supervisor and later friend, and worldclass libertarian communicator, David Boaz has died. I memorialize him at REASON: reason.com/2024/06/07/dav…

The Libertarian Party's presidential nominee Chase Oliver facing pushback from some state parties and a national chair who clearly prefers his opponent Trump to win. Details at Reason: reason.com/2024/07/11/the…

From #SDCC Podcast of the Joe Matt Tribute with Matt Groening, Sammy Harkham and Brian Doherty is now online at thecomicbooks.com/audio.html#SDC…

Barry Malzberg once wrote to tell me a review I wrote gave him, quoting F Pohl, "One of the few pleasures of so-called professional writing...once or twice in a lifetime you will meet a stranger who understands something you wrote _exactly_" That review: reason.com/2013/09/10/the…

A miscarriage of justice I've been reporting on for a decade is now over, Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump: reason.com/2025/01/21/pre…

I had difficult task of eulogizing Manuel Klausner, Reason Foundation trustee and former Reason magazine editor, a man of great enthusiasm and charm and important advocate of freedom. reason.com/2025/03/18/man…

For reason's 40th anniversary, I had Brian Doherty, THE historian of the libertarian movement, put together a long oral history. TNR/National Review/Weekly Standard, this very much wasn't. reason.com/2008/11/17/40-…

Mark the passing of Pere Ubu's David Thomas by listening to this Spotify playlist. So worthy of re/discovery, such haunting, wonderful, triumphant weirdness. And read Brian Doherty's wonderful writeup of his belief in markets &art reason.com/2013/12/26/per… open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9d…

Looking on first 100 Days of Trump II via terrible results from his severe rejection of a couple of core libertarian principles: reason.com/2025/04/29/the…

Miller's habeas corpus suspension trial balloon should remind libertarians who think they have a defense for immigration laws that you can't have serious immigration law enforcement without annihilating Western liberty entirely. New at REASON: reason.com/2025/05/20/ser…

A task I wish I hadn't lived to have to perform, eulogizing Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys at Reason. An artist& performer whose work meant as much as and in nearly all cases more than (Dylan only possible exception) any other American musician/creator: reason.com/2025/06/11/bri…