How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone

“We’ve gone to a modern [broadcast] system that has a lot of places where stuff can happen without permission,” says Thomas W. Hazlett, who’s the FCC’s former chief economist, a professor at Clemson University, and author of the new book The Political Spectrum:...

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Twin Peaks and the Moment TV Changed

ReasonWhen Twin Peaks came back to television this week, the critics agreed on one thing: It was a hell of a lot weirder than the show’s first incarnation. That’s an impressive accomplishment, given how strange the original series seemed at the time. In May of 1990, just a month...

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ABC’s Baffling Sequel to Romeo and Juliet Fails to Live Up to Bard’s Name

‘Still Star-Crossed,’ ABCStill Star-Crossed. ABC. Wednesday, May 31, 10 p.m.




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I cannot say Still Star-Crossed, ABC’s aptly named sequel to Romeo and Juliet, was a complete waste of my time. It briefly...

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3 Ways We're Reliving the Watergate Culture War

PixabayWhether or not we’re reliving the Watergate investigation, we sure do seem intent on reenacting the Watergate culture war. That isn’t just true of Donald Trump’s critics, who are understandably eager to compare the 37th and 45th presidents. It’s true of Trump...

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Trump's Saudi Trip Wasn't a Break From Tradition

Balkis Press/Sipa USA/NewscomWant to see the disconnect between America’s actual foreign policy and the way many media professionals imagine it? Check out Anne Applebaum’s Washington Post column calling Donald Trump’s stop in Saudi Arabia a “bizarre and un-American...

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HBO Ignores Madoff's Victims in Favor of Family Drama

‘The Wizard of Lies,’ HBOThe Wizard of Lies. HBO. Saturday, May 20, 8 p.m.




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Sorry, guys. Showtime has decided not to offer advance screenings of its reboot of the milestone of television weirdness, Twin Peaks,...

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For Trump, the Beginning of the End Has Begun

This is, from everything I have been able to gather this week, the beginning of the end of Donald Trump.
The New Yorker and Slate, longtime impartial observers of our 45th president, declared the man who “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t...

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The New York Times' Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

Chan Long Hei / Pacific Press/NewscomBinyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at The New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pa., in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read...

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The Base Rhetoric of Mainstream Taxation Talk

RICHARD B. LEVINE/NewscomLenin reportedly said, “The best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency.” If by “capitalist system”* we mean only what Adam Smith called “the obvious and simple system of natural liberty,” we could...

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Left Rebrands Environmental Regulations As Environmental Protections: New at Reason

Sahua/Dreamstime“Trump signs order at the EPA to dismantle environmental protections,” declares a March 28 headline in The Washington Post. An April 27 article in the Post described an “effort to remove environmental protections.” Two days later, another Post article...

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Maybe Donald Trump Isn't Actually a Master Media Manipulator

Wow ToysIf there’s one trope of the Trump years that we can definitively retire now, it’s the idea that the president is constantly winning some 13-dimensional chess game devoted to distracting us from unflattering stories. Where a more adept politician would be trying to change...

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Free to Adapt - Hit & Run : Reason.com

PenguinOne of my favorite books about architecture is Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn, a text that treats buildings as dynamic, evolving systems. It is shot through with disdain for architects who treat a structure as a “statement” without much thought for the practical...

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Documentary on Prison Boom Fails to Provide Facts or Context

‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’Independent Lens: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes. PBS. Monday, May 8, 10 p.m.




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Watching The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, I was reminded of an old movie joke. Q. How many...

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Brickbat: Fascinating

In Winnipeg, Nick Troller has had a personalized license plate on his vehicle that reads “ASIMIL8” for the past two years. Around it he has a frame that says “We Are the Borg” and “Resistance is Futile.” But now, Manitoba Public Insurance has demanded he...

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Plan to Roll Back Internet Regulations a Boon for Business and Innovation

David Becker / ZUMA Press / Splash News/NewscomLibertarians, rejoice—a U.S. regulator took the bold step of deciding that his office simply doesn’t have the jurisdiction to control major parts of the internet. Last Wednesday, the free market-friendly Federal Communications Commission...

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