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The Post-Liberals’ Incoherence
They say they have a real solution; we’d all love to see the plan.
Peter Suderman
A quick riff on last week's sharp @charlescwcooke essay about the incoherence of the post-liberal right:
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The Moral Scolds of the New Illiberal Right Are Coming For Your Internet
From Sohrab Ahmari to Josh Hawley, what the new right really wants is to squelch free expression.
Peter Suderman
A quick riff on last week's sharp @charlescwcooke essay about the incoherence of the post-liberal right:
reason.com/2019/06/25/the…
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nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/…
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(We Didn't) Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran…Yet
It's refreshing that a U.S. president would call off a bomb strike in the name of disproportionality. But are Donald Trump's Iranian policies making conflict more likely in the future? Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch and Nick...
George Will's Lonely Battle Against Republican Nationalism and Democratic Socialism
In an interview with Reason's Matt Welch, George Will talks about the importance of rehabilitating America's withered constitutional architecture, ponders what the punditry class got wrong in 2016, and reminisces about what it was like for a...
These Booze-Making Capitalist Monks Will Make Your Day
When Europe's beer-brewing, liquor-distilling monks combine Catholicism and capitalism, the results are delicious.
With Toy Story 4, the Toy Story Series Is Now Hollywood's Greatest Franchise
No other series has been so good for so long.
Peter Suderman
TOY STORY 4 is yet another touching, funny, thrilling, and wildly entertaining entry in what has become the greatest modern movie franchise
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Also: TOY STORY 4 is the best action movie you'll see this year that doesn't feature Keanu Reeves murdering people in a hallways full of knives.
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Peter Suderman
With TOY STORY 4, I think you the Toy Story series has become the greatest franchise in modern cinema:
reason.com/2019/06/21/toy…
It's hard to think of any other series that has been so good for so long.
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UPDATED: How to: Reset C by GE Light Bulbs
Use the first reset sequence if: Your bulbs are running on firmware version 2.8 or later (you can find your bulb firmware version by tapping on the device in...
As U.S. Steel Slows Production, It's Time To Stop Pretending Tariffs Work
The biggest American steelmaker says there has been reduced demand for their products in recent months, probably because they raised prices after Trump slapped tariffs on foreign steel.
Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Towing Racket After City Destroyed Disabled Woman's Van
The lawsuit is the second filed this year challenging Chicago's punitive and corrupt towing program.
Josh Hawley Introduces Bill to Put Washington In Charge of Internet Speech
Hawley is selling it as a way to fight tech-company "bias" against Republicans. Don't believe him.
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"Essentially, Hawley wants to revive the old Fairness Doctrine—a policy that was roundly denounced by conservatives for its chilling effect on free speech and its propensity to further marginalize non-mainstream voices..." - @ENBrown
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Trump's 2020 Campaign Kickoff Was a Nostalgic Throwback to…2016
The president's first big rally was a greatest hits show that dodged many of today's biggest issues.
Peter Suderman
Trump's greatest-hits theory of the 2020 campaign is fundamentally an appeal to nostalgia —specifically, nostalgia for three years ago, when Trump wasn't yet president.
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Peter Suderman
By returning to 2016 in the race for 2020, Trump is preparing to run a campaign premised on his own irrelevancy.
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Peter Suderman
By recycling his 2016 strategy for 2020, Trump is preparing to run a campaign premised on his own irrelevancy.
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Sequels aren't the summer box office's problem — bad sequels are
While some worry that moviegoers are finally growing tired of sequels and franchises, the truth is a bit simpler: moviegoers are growing tired of bad movies.
Are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders the same? The debate, explained.
Sanders and Warren: two candidates with similar policies and fundamentally different politics.
Deficit Politics May Have Gone Away, but Debt and Deficits Are Worse Than Ever
The federal budget situation used to be an emergency. What happened?
Trump Plans to Live-Tweet Democratic Debate
President Trump's political advisers wanted to keep the president off of Twitter during the Democratic debates next week, arguing that there was an advanta
How Socialist Are the Democrats?
How socialist ARE these Democrats, anyway? Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the 2020 presidential field on the latest Reason Podcast, Editors' Roundtable.
Trump Wants to Neutralize Democrats on Health Care. Republicans Say Let It Go.
If the president follows through on issuing a plan, it could help shape a presidential race that Democrats would like to focus largely on health care.
A Judge Called His Mandatory Sentence 'Excessive' and 'Wrong.' Less Than a Year Later He Died In Federal Prison
Frederick Turner was sentenced to a mandatory 40 years on nonviolent drug and firearm charges. He ended up in a high-security federal prison, and now he's dead.