Take a few minutes to watch ’s give a TED talk at the group’s TED Next conference in Atlanta. It’s a great discussion of using entrepreneurship to encourage economic development rather than relying on old, ineffective versions of foreign aid administered through local bureaucracies. Proud to be a board member at Ideas Beyond Borders and…
New Reason Interview podcast is up, with Wall Street legend, bestselling author, and Infinite Loops host . He’s got great ideas about how to keep the age of innovation alive and well, a deep analysis of what went wrong with Joe Biden, and how to build the best possible bullshit detector in an age of AI, Trump, Musk, and social media.
The next issue of Reason, the magazine I’ve worked at for 31 (count ‘em!) years, comes out to print and digital subscribers this Friday. Here’s the cover and the list of feature articles, which look great. All this material eventually gets dribbled out on the website, but why not get it fresh out of the oven? Print sub is $15/year (11 is…
Fascinating stuff from and Silver Bulletin
Congrats to on his upcoming TED Talk in Vancouver. He’s going to crush it!
Pete Seeger is basically the villain of the new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, always trying to control and direct the ways in which Dylan and other folkies do their thing. What’s left out in the film is Seeger’s longstanding allegiance to cultural diktat from the old Soviet Union and its global propaganda effort, the Comintern, w…
I’ve got a new Reason Interview podcast up, with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin talking about his book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, which argues that communism is "far from dead as a governing template.” Fascinating discussion of China’s social-credit system and the West’s voluntary form of social-media groupthink.
Thanks for the shout-out, Greg. You, Nico, and the whole FIRE team are indispensable bulwarks against the enemies of free speech.