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Minnesota Not So Nice

Plus: Solitary confinement for teens, the Disneyfication of protest, Alito asks about gender, autistic Barbie, and more...

Reason · Jan 14

Localism and the Limits of Regulating What We Love

When the perceived emotional harm from new development becomes a justification for state intervention, the law gets really arbitrary really quickly.

Reason · Dec 16, 2025

Gift to Trump

Plus: Robert Munsch chooses Canadian healthcare, Argentina in trouble, ignoring Greta, and more...

Reason · Sep 25, 2025

Spoonies: The Culture of Staying Sick

Online communities have made their diagnoses their identity.

Reason · Mar 15, 2023

Kat Rosenfield: Why It's Important for Novelists To Speak Freely

The mystery writer and cultural critic is an outspoken defender of free thinking and cultural appropriation.

Reason · Feb 22, 2023

Beyoncé, Lizzo, and Taylor Swift Give In To the Speech Police

"It's stories and songs and films cut apart and written over, leaving no trace and no remnant of whatever used to be," writes novelist and cultural critic Kat Rosenfield.

Reason · Dec 27, 2022

The Social Media Mob vs. the Novel

Are “extremely over-sensitive, Twitter activist people" ruining literature?

Reason · Jul 5, 2022

Kat Rosenfield: Meet Joe Rogan's Dumbest Fans

The novelist and essayist attacked CNN's handling of Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan—and promptly drew the ugly ire of the podcaster's admirers!

Reason · Feb 2, 2022