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Steven Heller: Growing Up Underground

  • November 25, 2022
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https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/35917C/d2h6a3ly6ooodw.cloudfront.net/reasontv_audio_8211787.mp3 1x 1.1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 3x :15 :15 DownloadSteven Heller: Growing Up Underground As a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s, Steven Heller improbably became the art director of pioneering alternative publications such as The New York Free Press, the pioneering porn magazine Screw, and The East Village Other before […]

The Qatar World Cup Is a Celebration of Authoritarianism

  • November 25, 2022
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The clearest sign of authoritarianism may be when people of different classes are not afforded the same rights and privileges. Do you have to have a position of political or culture power, or have a connection to someone who does, to be free? Does the state dictate what you consume, who you love, or where […]

Free Speech on Twitter? Not If Europe Has a Say

  • November 25, 2022
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Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutist” version of Twitter is looking more like a platform moderated with a lighter and less-partisan hand than a free-for-all, but even that is too much for critics. Some warn that free speech is dangerous. Others hint that app stores might ban Twitter to spare users from the peril of slightly […]

Foreign Workers Are Losing Their Tech Jobs. Will They Have To Leave the Country Too?

  • November 25, 2022
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Mass layoffs have left dozens of major tech firms and startups hemorrhaging workers ahead of the holiday season, capping off a year of shrinkage at those companies. That leaves thousands of former employees rushing to find new work in a currently contracting industrya daunting task for U.S. citizens and a predicament with potentially life-changing consequences […]

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Two Federal Judges Say New York’s Presumptive Prohibition of Guns on Private Property Is Unconstitutional

  • November 25, 2022
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After the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June, New York legislators perversely responded by imposing sweeping new restrictions on public possession of guns, banning them from a long list of locations. The broadest of those categories was “private property,” including businesses as well as residences, where carry permit holders were forbidden […]

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Rules Are Hamstringing Infrastructure Investments

  • November 25, 2022
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Some 55 million Americans are expected to pour over the nation’s roads, rails, and airports this Thanksgiving weekend. Almost none of them will thinkor careabout where the steel, concrete, and asphalt that’s taking them from place to place was made. And that’s how it should be. Unfortunately, federal law cares a lot about those thingsand […]