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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – June 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (March 21, 2024)The latest issue features ‘The AI Issue’

In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

AI developer Andrew Mayne explains why technology could create more jobs and lead to unprecedented economic growth.

The Future of AI Is Helping Us Discover the Past

An AI-generated image using the prompt, “Illustration of AI helping the study of history in the style of Da Vinci." | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson/Midjourney

Historical teaching and research are being revamped by AI.

VIRGINIA POSTREL

Will Antitrust Policy Smother the Power of AI?

An AI-generated image using the prompt, “Illustration of antitrust smothering the power of AI." | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson/Midjourney

Left alone, artificial intelligence could actually help small firms compete with tech giants.

PATRICK HEDGER

Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – May 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (March 21, 2024)The latest issue features ‘What If America Runs Out Of Bombs?’ – Due to overzealous interventionism, the U.S. is dispensing munitions faster than they can be replaced…

What if America Runs Out of Bombs?

An illustration of Uncle Sam as a PEZ dispenser, dispensing bombs | Photo: Julian Dufort; Wikimedia

The U.S. is dispensing munitions to Ukraine and Israel faster than they can be replaced.

By MATTHEW PETTI 

How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam

Two photos illustrate Vietnam's progress over time | Photo: Hanoi, Vietnam, 1985; Christopher Pillitz/Gettya; Photo: Hanoi, Vietnam, 2020; Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty

It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.

RAINER ZITELMANN

Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America’s First Drug War

opium | Photo: An opium den in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, in 1898; REASON 31 Strohmeyer & Wyman/Library of Congress

Opium dens in San Francisco were patronized “by the vicious and the depraved,” politicians of the 1800s claimed.

JACOB SULLUM

Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – April 2024

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    REASON MAGAZINE (February 23, 2024)The latest issue features ‘Commander In Chains?’ – What if a Presidential Candidate ends up in jail, incapacitated, or worse – in office?…

    Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election

    An illustration of a person wearing handcuffs in an orange prison jumpsuit with a presidential seal | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source image: Peter Dazeley/Getty

    There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.

    KEITH E. WHITTINGTON 

    Don’t Let E.U. Bureaucrats Design Americans’ Tech

    An illustration of the European Union flag mangled by a frayed phone charging cord | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

    Some Democrats want to mimic the Europe’s policies on phone chargers and more.

    JENNIFER HUDDLESTON

    The Future of Immigration Is Privatization

    featurefionaimmigrants | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: Clay Banks/Unsplash, PinkBadger/iStock

    New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.

    FIONA HARRIGAN

    Views: Novelist Margaret Atwood On Democracy – “Is It Fragile Or Resilient?”

    Financial Times (January 17, 2024) – In a year in which more than half the world goes to the polls, acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood asks whether democracy is fragile and easily destroyed or flexible and resilient.

    This animated monologue is the first of four films examining the state of government, representation, rights and freedom.

    Read more at https://www.ft.com/democracy

    Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Winter 2024

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    Foreign Policy Magazine – December 28, 2023: The new issue features ‘The Year The World Votes’ – Elections have consequences. What will happen when nearly half of the global population heads to the polls?

    The Promise and Peril of Geopolitics

    The world’s most dismal science could make Eurasia safe for illiberalism and predation—or protect it from those forces.

    By Hal Brands, a professor of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

    An illustration shows a stylized globe with a crack through it. A hand with a wrench tightens the screw atop the globe.

    Alexander Dugin is a bit of a madman. The Russian intellectual made headlines in the West in 2022, when his daughter was killed, apparently by Ukrainian operatives, in a Moscow car bombing likely meant for Dugin himself. Dugin would have been targeted because of his unapologetic, yearslong advocacy for a genocidal war of conquest in Ukraine. “Kill! Kill! Kill!” he screeched after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first invasion of that country in 2014, adding: “This is my opinion as a professor.” Even at his daughter’s funeral, Dugin stayed on message. Among her first words as an infant, he claimed, were “our empire.”

    Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – February 2024

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    REASON MAGAZINE (December 21, 2023)The latest issue features ‘The Conformity Gauntlet’ – How Universities use DEI Statements to Enforce Groupthink; The Post-Neoliberalism Moment; We Absolutely Do Not Need an FDA for AI, and more…

    Universities Use DEI Statements To Enforce Groupthink

    An illustration showing college graduates navigating a maze | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

    DEI statements are political litmus tests, write Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott.

    The Post-Neoliberalism Moment

    An illustration of Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek | Illustration: Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, and Milton Friedman; Joanna Andreasson REASON 27 Source images: Graphic Goods/Creative Market, Mosi/Fiverr

    Anyone advocating neoliberal policies is now persona non grata in Washington, D.C.

    DANIEL W. DREZNER

    We Absolutely Do Not Need an FDA for AI

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    If our best and brightest technologists and theorists are struggling to see the way forward for AI, what makes anyone think politicians are going to get there first?

    KATHERINE MANGU-WARD

    Turkey At 100 – Ataturk’s Dream & Erdogan’s Reality

    DW News (October 29, 2023) – Turkey is celebrating its 100th birthday. Events are taking place across the country to mark the anniversary of its founding.

    In the capital Ankara, Pesident Recep Tayyip Erdogan laid a wreath at the mausoleum dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founder, who created a modern, secular republic from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire in 1923.

    The centennial is also a personal milestone for Erdogan, who has been in power for more than 20 years. But challenges loom large as Turkey looks to the future. More from our correspondent Julia Hahn in Istanbul.

    Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – December 2023

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    REASON MAGAZINE (DECEMBER 2023) – The latest issue features The Endangered Species Act at 50 – Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?; Dobbs and the abortion debate is reshaping American Politics; Will Russia ever be free?, and more…

    The Endangered Species Act at 50

    An illustration of animals among green leaves | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

    Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?

    The Abundance Agenda Promises Everything to Everyone All at Once

    Illustration of two statues | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: BWFolsom/iStock, Creative Market

    Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.

    CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI

    Dobbs Is Reshaping American Politics

    Pro-life and pro-choice protesters yelling at a protest | Alex Wong/Getty

    A wave of ballot measures reminds us most Americans are moderate on abortion.

    ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN

    Will Russia Ever Be Free?

    An illustration of a bust sculpture of Vladimir Putin dissected | Illustration: antipolygon-youtube/Unsplash

    Promise and peril in post-Putin Russia

    CATHY YOUNG

    Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Fall 2023

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    Foreign Policy Magazine – Fall 2023: The new issue features The G-7 Becomes a Power Player – Russia’s war and China’s rise are turning a talking shop into a fledgling alliance of democracies; Vivek Ramaswamy’s Foreign Policies Raise Eyebrows in Washington – The GOP’s rising star offers up a grab bag of ideas cribbed from Eminem to Richard Nixon and more…

    The G-7 Becomes a Power Player

    Foreign Policy – the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

    Russia’s war and China’s rise are turning a talking shop into a fledgling alliance of democracies.

    By G. John Ikenberry, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

    Time and again over the last century, the United States and the other liberal democracies in Europe, East Asia, and elsewhere have found themselves on the same side in grand struggles over the terms of the world order. This political grouping has been given various names: the West, the free world, the trilateral world, the community of democracies. In one sense, it is a geopolitical formation, uniting North America, Europe, and Japan, among others. It is an artifact of the Cold War and U.S. hegemony, anchored in NATO and Washington’s East Asian alliances.

    Vivek Ramaswamy’s Foreign Policies Raise Eyebrows in Washington

    Vivek Ramaswamy's Foreign Policies Raise Eyebrows in Washington – DNyuz

    The GOP’s rising star offers up a grab bag of ideas cribbed from Eminem to Richard Nixon.

    By Jack Detsch

    End American dependence on Taiwan’s semiconductor factories. Declare economic independence from China. Give India an AUKUS-like submarine deal. And stage a dramatic visit to Moscow to broker a deal to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

    Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Summer 2023

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    Foreign Policy Magazine – Summer 2023: Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere. It seems as though no conversation about jobs, education, health care, technology, or politics happens without an inevitable question about how AI could disrupt it all. 

    AI Is Winning the AI Race

    Success isn’t just staying ahead of China.

    A textural drawn illustraiton shows a robotic AI arm stabbing a flag through a globe wireframe containing two wrestling human-shaped figures with U.S. and China colors on each for a story about global competition over artificial intelligence.