I was struck by British Defense Minister Liam Fox’s description of the new Medal of Honor video game set in Afghanistan. He called it “thoroughly un-British,” a phrase that presumably refers to something more than the game’s country of origin
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Why Is ‘Un-British’ Bad?
How to make a libertarian’s head explode : a bank bailout… in Afghanistan .
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Reason Morning Links: Scanners Edition
Few essays attracted as much attention from right-wing readers this summer as “America’s Ruling Class—and the Perils of Revolution” by Angelo Codevilla. Now that very long article has been expanded into a very brief book, called The Ruling Class
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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on The Ruling Class
The L os Angeles Times released performance data on 6,000 district teachers on Sunday, and it caused quite a stir. Liberating teacher performance data is a great way to start out the school year—but it’s not enough, writes Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward
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New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Liberating Education Information
Alan Simpson violated a taboo last week when he likened Social Security to “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” But contrary to the critics who accused him of sexist vulgarity, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum says the former Wyoming senator’s transgression had nothing to do with his use of a perfectly acceptable synonym for teat .
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Alan Simpson and the Sacred Social Security Cow
Just in time for the Labor Day holiday, gasoline prices are falling. Two years ago, gas prices peaked at over $4 per gallon, more than quadrupling from just 88.5 cents per gallon back in 1999. So what the hell is going on
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Delves into the Deep Mysteries of Gas Prices
Two years ago the Chesapeake, Virginia, police made some decisions that led to an officer’s death, then tried to convict a scapegoat of capital murder. In April, following an outcry, the police department announced a change in how it will conduct drug raids.
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New at Reason: Radley Balko on Another Drug Raid Gone Bad
From our August-September issue, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum reports on the arrest of Daniel Tzvetkoff, co-founder of the online payment processor Intabill. As Sullum writes, Tzvetkoff’s crime was doing precisely what Intabill purported to do: facilitate online payments, including bets by American poker players. View this article.
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on the Arrest of Online Gambling Entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff
In a review of the new anthology The Best American Comics Criticism , Senior Editor Brian Doherty surveys a new world in which both the specialty press, the standard literary and news press, political magazines, and books from big New York publishers all accept comics as a legitimate part of our larger cultural discussion.
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New at Reason: Brian Doherty on the Past and Future of Comic Books
The Food and Drug Administration is charged with assuring food safety. But as Steve Chapman writes, the government can’t actually do that. The task is too big and too complex
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Food Safety and Big Government
