Senior Editor, Reason magazine Author of Dirty Pictures, This is Burning Man, Radicals for Capitalism, Gun Control on Trial, Ron Paul's Revolution
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What I did with first year and a half of the plague era. New book scheduled for June release. Buy it, you'll like it:
amazon.com/Dirty-Pictures-Un…
Reason mag, where I work, is having its annual Webathon to raise $$$ to support its mission, covering politics&culture from libertarian perspective. Following will be links to some of my 2025 work, mostly related to libertarian movement concerns and ideas: reason.com/donate/?rfr=tw002…
On the unneeded revival of the anti-libertarian ideas of tech critic Paulina Borsook: reason.com/2025/12/04/the-cy…
Remembering what it was like at the dawn of the 1980s for libertarianism, eulogizing unusually successful 1980 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ed Clark: reason.com/2025/07/02/ed-cla…
On how the worst aspects of Trump's second first 100 days as president are directly linked to his anti-libertarianism: reason.com/2025/04/29/the-wo…
On how the American Right in the Trump age lost its way in large part by ignoring the libertarian insights of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises: reason.com/2025/03/08/the-am…
On the Libertarian Party's surprise sudden change in national leadership following the resignation of Angela McArdle: reason.com/2025/02/04/libert…
On how Donald Trump came through on a promise made at the 2024 Libertarian Party convention to pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht: reason.com/2025/01/21/presid…
An account of the pitfalls and benefits of MAGA Elon Musk in the Trump administration for libertarians, appearing between election and inauguration and before the flameout: reason.com/2025/01/04/the-im…
Obituary post for Ed Clark, the Libertarian Party's then-unprecedentedly successful presidential candidate in 1980 (an amazing year for libertarianism in politics and culture), up at Reason:
reason.com/2025/07/02/ed-cla…
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/brian-…
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/seriou…
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-wo…
Brian Doherty retweeted
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 @brianmdoherty's wonderful writeup of his belief in markets &art reason.com/2013/12/26/pere-u… open.spotify.com/playlist/37…
Brian Doherty retweeted
For @Reason's 40th anniversary, I had @brianmdoherty, 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-yea…
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/manuel…
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/presid…
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-fu…
Reason mag, where I work, is having its annual Webathon to raise $$$ to support its work, covering politics&culture from a libertarian perspective. Following links to some of my 2024 work, specifically about unique libertarian movement concerns and ideas:
reason.com/donate/?rfr=d0002…
And on lawsuits to remove the Libertarian Party's national chair from the national secretary the Party was itself trying to remove: reason.com/2024/10/10/libert…
On how some Libertarian Party state parties and its national management curiously fought against the party's own presidential nominee, Chase Oliver: reason.com/2024/07/11/the-li…
On the growing salience of the idea of secession in America, in Texas and elsewhere, a notion of longtime appeal to many libertarians: reason.com/2024/10/13/texit-…
