At the height of the Canadian trucker “Freedom Convoy,” as it occupied Ottawa, Canada’s capital, the Biden administration pressured Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to shut the convoy down. The revelation of the Biden administration’s involvement came from an investigation into Trudeau’s decision to use the Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Thanksgiving, we rightly give thanks. And let’s be clear that, amid all the turmoil that consumes daily headlines, we Americans do indeed have a lot to be thankful for. We are still relatively free. We are also incredibly prosperousa prosperity that would be impossible without uniquely talented and driven entrepreneurs and the courageous investors […]
Consumers are entering the biggest shopping day of the year wary of higher price levels and the future of the global economy. Inflation is casting an ominous shadow on Black Friday, on which retailers offer highly discounted prices to usher in the beginning of the holiday shopping season. According to an analysis from Boston Consulting […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk agreed that it’s been conservatives, not leftists, who overwhelmingly bore the brunt of Twitter’s Orwellian censorship operation. Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza tweeted Nov. 21, “We don’t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter. Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place. Their lies and misinformation […]
